Do you know where your fingers have been? Explicit knowledge of the spatial layout of the keyboard in skilled typists

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 474-484

  Liu, Xianyun ^a   Crump, Matthew J C ^a   Logan, Gordon D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECALL; TOUCH;

COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MENTAL RECALL; MOTOR SKILLS; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH;

EID: 77956478117     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.38.4.474     Document Type: Article

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