Refractoriness in Sustained Visuo-Manual Control: Is the Refractory Duration Intrinsic or Does It Depend on External System Properties?

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  van de Kamp, Cornelis ^a   Gawthrop, Peter J ^b,c   Gollee, Henrik ^b   Loram, Ian D ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c The University of Melbourne   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INVERTED PENDULUM;

CONDITION; CONTINUOUS CONTROL; CONTROL TASK; EXTERNAL SYSTEMS; METHODS OF ANALYSIS; NEUROMOTOR; ORDERING SYSTEM; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SECOND-ORDER SYSTEMSS; SYSTEM PROPERTY;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTORY PERIOD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 84873507817     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002843     Document Type: Article

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