Postural sway increases with attentional demands of concurrent cognitive task

Gait and Posture

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-34

  Pellecchia, Geraldine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive activity; Dual task; Information reduction; Postural sway

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038308104     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-6362(02)00138-8     Document Type: Article

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