Effect of terminal accuracy requirements on temporal gaze-hand coordination during fast discrete and reciprocal pointings

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Terrier, Romain ^a,b   Forestier, Nicolas ^a   Berrigan, Félix ^c   Germain Robitaille, Mathieu ^b   Lavallière, Martin ^b   Teasdale, Normand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CALIBRATION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HAND; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CALIBRATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAND; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 79851507836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17430003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-0003-8-10     Document Type: Article

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