Temporal Control and Hand Movement Efficiency in Skilled Music Performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Goebl, Werner ^a   Palmer, Caroline ^b  

^a Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien   (Austria)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DISTAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; FINGER EXTENSION; FINGER JOINT ANGLE; FINGER MOVEMENT EFFICIENCY; FOREARM; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MOVEMENT EFFCIENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KEYSTROKE EFFICIENCY; KINEMATICS; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PIANIST; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; TEMPO; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TONE INTENSITY; TONE VELOCITY; WRIST JOINT ANGLE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FINGER JOINT; FINGERS; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSIC; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; WRIST JOINT; YOUNG ADULT;

PSEUDOPANAX ARBOREUS;

EID: 84871861131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050901     Document Type: Article

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