Grasping time does not influence the early adherence of aperture shaping to Weber's law

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Heath, Matthew ^a   Holmes, Scott A ^a   Mulla, Ali ^a   Binsted, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action; Grasping; Impulse variability; Psychophysical; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRASPING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TIME; VELOCITY; VISUAL INFORMATION; WEBER LAW;

EID: 84933673077     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00332     Document Type: Article

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