Motor control: Mechanisms of motor equivalence in handwriting.
Handwriting is a classic example of how the details of movement can be scale and plane invariant: letter forms reflecting personal style are unchanged, whether one is writing on a piece of paper, on a blackboard or in the sand using the foot. Recent research points to a role for the parietal cortex in such motor equivalence.
Wing
A M
AM
Sensory Motor Neuroscience Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, UK. a.m.wing@bham.ac.uk
D006236:Handwriting; D006801:Humans; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*