Aging reduces asymmetries in interlimb transfer of visuomotor adaptation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 283-290

  Wang, Jinsung ^a   Przybyla, Andrzej ^b   Wuebbenhorst, Kati ^b   Haaland, Kathleen Y ^c   Sainburg, Robert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalization; Hemispheric lateralization; Motor control; Motor learning; Reaching movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953823809     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2631-1     Document Type: Article

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