Does thumb posture influence the mental rotation of hands?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 534, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 139-144

  Bläsing, Bettina ^a   Brugger, Peter ^b   Weigelt, Matthias ^c   Schack, Thomas ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Handedness; Mental rotation; MOLA; Posture effect; Thumbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; POSTURE; ROTATION; THUMB; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873056427     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.11.034     Document Type: Article

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