Multisensory reweighting of vision and touch is intact in healthy and fall-prone older adults

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 342-352

  Allison, Leslie K ^a   Kiemel, Tim ^b   Jeka, John J ^b,c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Fall prone; Postural control; Sensory reweighting; Touch; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSATION; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTURE; TOUCH; VISION;

EID: 33750372526     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0559-7     Document Type: Article

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