Mentally represented motor actions in normal aging. II. The influence of the gravito-inertial context on the duration of overt and covert arm movements

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 273-283

  Personnier, Pascaline ^a   Paizis, Christos ^a   Ballay, Yves ^a   Papaxanthis, Charalambos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Arm movement; Internal models; Motor imagery; Motor prediction; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; JOINT FUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOVEMENT; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TORQUE;

EID: 36248985097     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.08.018     Document Type: Article

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