A compact representation of drawing movements with sequences of parabolic primitives

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Polyakov, Felix ^a   Drori, Rotem ^b   Ben Shaul, Yoram ^b   Abeles, Moshe ^c   Flash, Tamar ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ARM MOVEMENTS; COMPACT REPRESENTATION; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT; GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS; MOVEMENT PRIMITIVES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; PARABOLIC TRAJECTORIES; PARABOLICS; SPATIAL LOCATION; TWO-THIRDS POWER LAWS;

GEOMETRY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DRAWING; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; MONKEY; MOTOR SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; REWARD; STEREOTYPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; HAND; HANDWRITING; LEARNING; MACACA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ARM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HAND; HANDWRITING; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD;

EID: 68249126395     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000427     Document Type: Article

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