Material evidence: Interaction of well-learned priors and sensorimotor memory when lifting objects

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1262-1269

  Baugh, Lee A ^a   Kao, Michelle ^a   Johansson, Roland S ^b   Randall Flanagan, J ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Object lifting; Sensorimotor integration; Sensorimotor memory; Weight prediction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DENSITY; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORIMOTOR MEMORY; WEIGHT; WOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; LIFTING; MALE; MEMORY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT PERCEPTION; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865832383     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00263.2012     Document Type: Article

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