The effect of a concurrent cognitive task on cortical potentials evoked by unpredictable balance perturbations

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Quant, Sylvia ^a,b   Adkin, Allan L ^c   Staines, W Richard ^b,d   Maki, Brian E ^a,e   McIlroy, William E ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STANDING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 2642541812     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-5-18     Document Type: Article

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