Fitts's Law violation and motor imagery: Are imagined movements truthful or lawful?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 607-611

  Radulescu, Petre V ^a   Adam, Jos J ^b   Fischer, Martin H ^c   Pratt, Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Fitts's Law; Motor control; Motor imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951092836     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-2072-2     Document Type: Article

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