Examining Prepotent Response Suppression in Aging: A Kinematic Analysis

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 450-461

  Trewartha, Kevin M ^a,b   Endo, Alejandro ^a   Li, Karen Z H ^a   Penhune, Virginia B ^a,b  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^b Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology Groupe de Recherche en Neurobiologie Comportementale   (Canada)

Author keywords

conflict monitoring; executive control; motor control; movement kinematics; response suppression

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BIOMECHANICS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 66549123420     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015498     Document Type: Article

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