The Multiple Tasks Test: Development and normal strategies

Gait and Posture

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 191-202

  Bloem, Bastiaan R ^a,b   Valkenburg, Vibeke V ^b   Slabbekoorn, Mathilde ^b   Willemsen, Mirjam D ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Dual task; Falls; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FALLING; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034809019     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6362(01)00141-2     Document Type: Article

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