Exploring spared capacity in persons with dementia: What wiiTM can learn

Activities, Adaptation and Aging

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 303-313

  Alison, Fenney ^a   Lee, Timothy D ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dementia; Interactive gaming; Motor learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650232280     PISSN: 01924788     EISSN: 15444368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01924788.2010.525736     Document Type: Article

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