When what's left is right: Visuomotor transformations in an aged population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Baugh, Lee A ^a   Marotta, Jonathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 65849502205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005484     Document Type: Article

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