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Typewriting, musical instrument playing, spoken language, and dance involve sophisticated motor skills and associated symbol schemes. Researchers in cognition have been interested in these abilities because they enable the study of relations between the structure of motor behavior and the organization of the associated formal system. Typewriting, in particular, is of interest because of the remarkable rate and complexity of finger and hand movements involved and because its performance is readily quantifiable. However, if typewriting is to be used to study either cognitive or motor organization, the factors contributing to its temporal structure must be identified.
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Ostry, D. J., & Munhall, K. G. Syllabic influences on the timing of typing. Unpublished manuscript, McGill University, 1981.
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Ostry, D.J. (1983). Determinants of Interkey Times in Typing. In: Cooper, W.E. (eds) Cognitive Aspects of Skilled Typewriting. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5470-6_9
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