Using a stick does not necessarily alter judged distances or reachability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  de Grave, Denise D J ^a,b   Brenner, Eli ^a   Smeets, Jeroen B J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH VLAARDINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PSYCHOMETRY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE; TOUCH; VISUAL FEEDBACK; APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; HAND; INSTRUMENTATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REIMBURSEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HAND; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RELATIVE VALUE SCALES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOUCH; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

EID: 79952077829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016697     Document Type: Article

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