Aging affects the mental rotation of left and right hands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Saimpont, Arnaud ^a   Pozzo, Thierry ^a,b   Papaxanthis, Charalambos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; COGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 69849084086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006714     Document Type: Article

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