When does walking alter thinking? Age and task associated findings

Brain Research

Volumn 1253, Issue , 2009, Pages 92-99

  Srygley, Jennifer M ^a,c   Mirelman, Anat ^a,c   Herman, Talia ^a   Giladi, Nir ^a,b   Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^a,b,c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Dual task; Executive function; Gait

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECALL; SITTING; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; WALKING; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58249130997     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.11.067     Document Type: Article

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