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Movement trajectories in the presence of a distracting stimulus: Evidence for a response activation model of selective reaching

Timothy N. WelshUniversity of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Digby ElliottMcMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pages 1031-1057 | Published online: 13 May 2010

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