Artificial gravity reveals that economy of action determines the stability of sensorimotor coordination

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Carson, Richard G ^a,b   Oytam, Yalchin ^b,c   Riek, Stephan ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; ROBOTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER; ARM; HAND; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ARM; FEMALE; GRAVITY, ALTERED; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSIC; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROBOTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249183069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005248     Document Type: Article

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