Age-related effects in interlimb practice on coding complex movement sequences

Human Movement Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 459-474

  Panzer, Stefan ^a   Gruetzmacher, Nicole ^e   Fries, Udo ^b   Krueger, Melanie ^c   Shea, Charles H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Motor learning; Sequence learning; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; COMPLEX MOVEMENT SEQUENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79955871411     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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