The role of haptic exploration of ground surface information in perception of overhead reachability

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 491-498

  Pepping, Gert Jan ^a,c   Li, Fraņois Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affordances; Jump; Perception action coupling; Reaching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ARM; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ELASTICITY; KINESTHESIA; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOUCH;

ARM; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149260564     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JMBR.40.6.491-498     Document Type: Article

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