Observing human movements helps decoding environmental forces

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-63

  Zago, Myrka ^a   La Scaleia, Barbara ^a   Miller, William L ^b   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^a,c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gravity; Interception; Pictorial; Scene inversion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BULLET; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; KINEMATICS; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION TEST;

ADULT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82655162074     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2871-0     Document Type: Article

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