Motor asymmetry reduction in older adults

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 489, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-104

  Przybyla, Andrzej ^a   Haaland, Kathleen Y ^c,d   Bagesteiro, Leia B ^b   Sainburg, Robert L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Dominance; Handedness; Lateralization; Motor asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT;

EID: 78651468364     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.11.074     Document Type: Article

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