Walking is more like catching than tapping: Gait in the elderly as a complex cognitive task

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 541-548

  Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^a,b,c   Yogev, Galit ^a,c   Springer, Shmuel ^a,c   Simon, Ely S ^d   Giladi, Nir ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d NeuroTrax Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive function; Gait; Rhythmicity; Variability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

AGED; AGING; ARM; COGNITION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

EID: 23044466622     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2280-3     Document Type: Article

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