Visuomotor mental rotation: The reaction time advantage for anti-pointing is not influenced by perceptual experience with the cardinal axes

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 593-598

  Neely, Kristina A ^a   Heath, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Reaching; Reaction time; Sensorimotor transformations; Vector inversion; Visuomotor mental rotation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR MENTAL ROTATION;

ADULT; ARM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951090278     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-2056-2     Document Type: Article

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