Linguistic and perceptual-motor contributions to the kinematic properties of the braille reading finger

Human Movement Science

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 711-730

  Hughes, Barry ^a   Van Gemmert, Arend W A ^b   Stelmach, George E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2340; Braille; Haptic perception; Kinematics; Movement analysis; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAILLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERCEPTION; READING; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VELOCITY;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICS; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TOUCH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79959869883     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: 18727646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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