Gait & Posture
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 173-179 , February 2006

Variability of reciprocal aiming movements during standing: The effect of amplitude and frequency

  • Frédéric Danion

      Affiliations

    • UMR 6559 Mouvement et Perception, Université de la Méditerranée, CNRS, Faculté des Sciences du Sport, 163 avenue de Luminy, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +33 04 91 17 22 78; fax: +33 04 91 17 22 52.
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  • Marcos Duarte

      Affiliations

    • Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Educação Física e Esporte, São Paulo, Brasil
    • ,
  • Marc Grosjean

      Affiliations

    • Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Psychology, Munich, Germany

Received 2 July 2004 ,Revised 28 December 2004 ,Accepted 20 January 2005.

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PII: S0966-6362(05)00014-7

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2005.01.005

Gait & Posture
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 173-179 , February 2006

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