Gender-dependent bimanual task performance

Medicina

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 497-503

  Mickevičiene, Dalia ^a   Motiejunaite, Kristina ^a   Karanauskiene, Diana ^a   Skurvydas, Albertas ^a   Vizbaraite, Daiva ^a   Krutulyte, Gražina ^a   Rimdeikiene, Inesa ^b  

^a LITHUANIAN SPORTS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Bimanual response; Gender; Movement velocity; Reaction time; Response accuracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856664769     PISSN: 1010660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/medicina47090073     Document Type: Article

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