Age differences in mental scanning of locomotor maps

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 741-752

  Iachini, Tina ^a   Poderico, Carla ^a   Ruggiero, Gennaro ^a   Iavarone, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b CTO Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Mental scanning and spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 22544455945     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280400014782     Document Type: Article

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