Effect of navigation direction on the dual-task of counting backward during blind navigation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 442, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 148-151

  Paquet, Nicole ^a,b   Lajoie, Yves ^a   Rainville, Constant ^b,c   Sabagh Yazdi, Fatemeh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b JEWISH REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive task; Dual task; Human; Locomotion; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLIND NAVIGATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIRECTORY; DUAL TASK; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISION; WALKING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 48149103374     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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