Age-related slowing in movement parameterization studies: Not what you might think

Advances in Psychology

Volumn 114, Issue C, 1996, Pages 1-25

  Amrhein, Paul C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; aimed movement; Brinley plot; movement time; reaction time; slowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 32644477081     PISSN: 01664115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4115(96)80004-5     Document Type: Chapter

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