Manual interception of moving targets in two dimensions: Performance and space-time accuracy

Brain Research

Volumn 1250, Issue , 2009, Pages 202-217

  Tresilian, J R ^a   Plooy, A M ^a   Marinovic, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Aimed movement; Human; Interception; Movement timing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ERROR; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR SKILLS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149299657     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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