Decline in motor prediction in elderly subjects: Right versus left arm differences in mentally simulated motor actions

Cortex

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1271-1278

  Skoura, Xanthi ^a   Personnier, Pascaline ^b   Vinter, Annie ^a   Pozzo, Thierry ^b   Papaxanthis, Charalambos ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Human; Motor imagery; Motor prediction; Movement duration; Right and Left arm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SIMULATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 50149114483     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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