Posture and cognition interfere in later adulthood even without concurrent response production

Human Movement Science

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 809-819

  Smolders, Caroline ^a   Doumas, Mihalis ^a   Krampe, Ralf Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Age differences; Cognition; Dual task; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; HEARING; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MEMORY; POSTURE; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956431270     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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