Chapter 12 A Stitch in Time: Cognitive Issues in Microsurgery

Publisher Microsurgery is an ideal venue for the study of motor skill for a number of reasons. In general, very little is known about the acquisition of movement skills performed at the microscopic level. Even researchers in human factors have given little effort to the empirical study of micro-movements. In microsurgery, very little about the acquisition or development of skill, or the transfer (positive and negative) of skill from …