Age effects on controlling tools with sensorimotor transformations

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Sutter, Christine ^a   Ladwig, Stefan ^a   Oehl, Michael ^b   Müsseler, Jochen ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distal action effect; Ideomotor principle; Perception; Proprioception; Proximal action effect; Sensory integration; Tool use; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874579730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00573     Document Type: Article

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