Effects of a single-task versus a dual-task paradigm on cognition and balance in healthy subjects

Journal of Sport Rehabilitation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 296-310

  Ross, Luke M ^a   Register Mihalik, Johna K ^b   Mihalik, Jason P ^b   McCulloch, Karen L ^c   Prentice, William E ^a   Shields, Edgar W ^a   Guskiewicz, Kevin M ^b  

^a Dept of Exercise and Sport Science ^*  (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Concussion; Postural stability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BRAIN CONCUSSION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CONCUSSION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSTURAL BALANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053298758     PISSN: 10566716     EISSN: 15433072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jsr.20.3.296     Document Type: Article

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