Visuo-postural adaptation during the acquisition of a visually guided weight-shifting task: Age-related differences in global and local dynamics

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 525-535

  Hatzitaki, Vassilia ^a   Konstadakos, Stylianos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coordination; Elderly; Motor learning; Posture; Vision

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548611253     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1007-z     Document Type: Article

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