Greater specificity of sensorimotor learning in the elderly when acquiring an interceptive task

Current Aging Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-66

  Teixeira, Luis Augusto ^a   dos Santos Lima, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Interception; Motor behavior; Motor learning; Specificity of practice; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LIGHT INTERCEPTION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; ADAPTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77949326648     PISSN: 18746098     EISSN: 18746128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874609810902010060     Document Type: Article

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