The control parameters used by the CNS to guide the hand depend on the visuo-motor task: Evidence from visually guided pointing

Neuroscience

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 578-598

  Thaler, L ^a   Todd, J T ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

endpoint coding; execution noise; hand movements; planning noise; vector coding; visuo motor transformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NOISE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 60849114731     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.12.038     Document Type: Article

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