Memorizing while walking: Increase in dual-task costs from young adulthood to old age

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 417-436

  Lindenberger, Ulman ^a,b   Marsiske, Michael ^a   Baltes, Paul B ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COGNITION; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORY SYSTEM; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 0033808693     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.15.3.417     Document Type: Article

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