Motor abundance contributes to resolving multiple kinematic task constraints

Motor Control

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-115

  Gera, Geetanjali ^a   Freitas, Sandra ^b   Latash, Mark ^c   Monahan, Katherine ^a   Schöner, Gregor ^d   Scholz, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Physical Therapy Department   (Brazil)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MOTOR ABUNDANCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE;

EID: 76149083929     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.14.1.83     Document Type: Article

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