Computer games and fine motor skills

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 755, Issue , 2013, Pages 343-348

  Borecki, Lukasz ^a   Tolstych, Katarzyna ^a   Pokorski, Mieczyslaw ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OPOLE   (Poland)

^b MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fine motor skills; Movement coordination; Psychomotor functioning Young adults; Video games

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; COMPUTER GAME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAME; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREMOR; VELOCITY;

EID: 84867526359     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4546-9_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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