Modulating Fitts's Law: Perceiving targets at the last placeholder

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-105

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2323 Visual Perception; 2330 Motor Processes; 2340 Cognitive Processes; Fitts's Law; Motor performance; Pointing; Visual perception; Visuomotor control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954787787     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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