Development of unimanual versus bimanual task performance in an isometric task

Human Movement Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4 SPE. ISS., 2004, Pages 461-474

  Westenberg, Y ^a,b   Smits Engelsman, B C M ^a,c,d   Duysens, J ^b,e  

^a AVANS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b SMK Research   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bimanual; Force variability; Motor development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOMETRICS; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FORCE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOVEMENT;

EID: 8644243155     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2004.08.018     Document Type: Article

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