Deficits in executed and imagined aiming performance in brain-injured children

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 154-161

  Caeyenberghs, K ^a   van Roon, D ^a   Swinnen, S P ^a   Smits Engelsman, B C M ^a,b  

^a Research Center for Motor Control and Neuroplasticity   (Belgium)

^b AVANS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavior; Brain injury; Cerebellum; Children; Motor control; Motor disorders; Motor imagery; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 58749107526     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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