Impairment of online control of reaching movements with aging: A double-step study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 403, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 309-314

  Sarlegna, Fabrice R ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Age; Feedback control; Human; Internal representation; Memorized target; Target displacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745760442     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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