Psychomotor speed in a random sample of 7979 subjects aged 30 years and over

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-144

  Era, Pertti ^a,b   Sainio, Païvi ^c   Koskinen, Seppo ^c   Ohlgren, Jukka ^c   Härkänen, Tommi ^c   Aromaa, Arpo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b Central Finland Health Care District   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aging; Decision time; Gender differences; Movement time; Normative values; Population study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM SAMPLE; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79960895703     PISSN: 15940667     EISSN: 17208319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03351077     Document Type: Article

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