Effector system mechanisms of coordination

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Efficiently Recording the Eye-Hand Coordination to Incoordination Spectrum
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Published on: March 21, 2019

R E Jones1

  • 1a Department of Physical Education , University of Wisconsin , Milwaukee.

Journal of Motor Behavior
|August 20, 2013
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