Watch and learn: Seeing is better than doing when acquiring consecutive motor tasks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Larssen, Beverley C ^a   Ong, Nicole T ^a   Hodges, Nicola J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; ROTATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862507652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038938     Document Type: Article

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