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The Journal of Psychology
Interdisciplinary and Applied
Volume 41, 1956 - Issue 1
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Performance on a Tracking Task as a Function of Position, Radius, and Loading of Control Cranks: I. Stationary Targets

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Pages 135-150 | Received 23 Sep 1955, Published online: 02 Jul 2010

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