The Locus of Age × Health-Related Physical Fitness Interactions in Serial Choice Responding as a Function of Task Complexity: Central Processing or Motor Function?

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 103-122

  Bunce, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FITNESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; REACTION TIME; VELOCITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0034746693     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713842729     Document Type: Article

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