Effects of a secondary task on obstacle avoidance in healthy young adults

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-120

  Siu, Ka Chun ^a,b   Catena, Robert D ^b   Chou, Li Shan ^b   Van Donkelaar, Paul ^b   Woollacott, Marjorie H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Dual task paradigm; Gait; Obstacle avoidance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COGNITION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VOICE; WALKING;

EID: 35848971245     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1087-9     Document Type: Article

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