Motor imagery of tool use: Relationship to actual use and adherence to Fitts' law across tasks

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 169-179

  Macuga, Kristen L ^a   Papailiou, Athan P ^a   Frey, Scott H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitts' law; Imagery; Motor learning; Sensorimotor control; Tool use; Visually guided movement

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84862856629     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3004-0     Document Type: Article

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