Improvement of motor performance by observational training in elderly people

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 480, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 138-142

  Tia, Banty ^a,b   Mourey, France ^a,b   Ballay, Yves ^a   Sirandré, Cyril ^a   Pozzo, Thierry ^a,c   Paizis, Christos ^a,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Action; Back to sit; Elderly; Observation; Sit to stand; Walking

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC REHABILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; STANDING; TRAINING; WALKING; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; SENSORY FEEDBACK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WALKING;

EID: 77954537724     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.06.026     Document Type: Article

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