Age-related differences during a gaze reorientation task while standing or walking on a treadmill

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 157-164

  Cinelli, Michael ^a,b   Patla, Aftab ^b   Stuart, Bethany ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body segments; Elderly; Falls; Gaze reorientation; Human locomotion; Kinematics; Postural stability

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREADMILL; VISION; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGING; EXERCISE TEST; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WALKING;

EID: 38649093939     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1266-8     Document Type: Article

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