Effects of hand termination and accuracy requirements on eye-hand coordination in older adults

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-46

  Rand, Miya K ^a   Stelmach, George E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Eye hand coordination; Gaze anchoring; Kinematics; Limb control; Oculomotor control

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; EYE FIXATION; EYE HAND COORDINATION; FEMALE; GAZE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAND; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651239483     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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