Effects of aging on control of timing and force of finger tapping

Motor Control

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-186

  Sasaki, Hirokazu ^a   Masumoto, Junya ^b   Inui, Nobuyuki ^c  

^a Yamakami Hospital   (Japan)

^b HYOGO UNIVERSITY OF TEACHER EDUCATION   (Japan)

^c NARUTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Finger tapping; Force variability; Time variability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BASAL GANGLION; FEMALE; FINGER; FORCE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GROUPS BY AGE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79957663749     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.15.2.175     Document Type: Article

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