The neural control of bimanual movements in the elderly: Brain regions exhibiting age-related increases in activity, frequency-induced neural modulation, and task-specific compensatory recruitment

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1281-1295

  Goble, Daniel J ^a   Coxon, James P ^a   Van Impe, Annouchka ^a   De Vos, Jeroen ^a   Wenderoth, Nicole ^a   Swinnen, Stephan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aging; Bimanual coordination; fMRI; Hand; Humans; Motor neuroscience; Sensorimotor function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COORDINATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955071292     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20943     Document Type: Article

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