Aging and motor variability: A test of the neural noise hypothesis

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 377-397

  Sosnoff, Jacob J ^a   Newell, Karl M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TREMOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TREMOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961033356     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2011.590754     Document Type: Article

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