Changes of locomotion in old age depend on task setting

Gait and Posture

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 645-649

  Bock, Otmar ^a   Beurskens, Rainer ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Gait; Setting; Slowing; Variability

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

AGED; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTIVATION; SELF EFFICACY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 78149464803     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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