Healthy older observers cannot use biological-motion point-light information efficiently within 4 m of themselves

i-Perception

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 104-111

  Legault, Isabelle ^a   Troje, Nikolaus F ^b   Faubert, Jocelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Biological motion; Collision Avoidance; Complexity.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861096638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20416695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/i0485     Document Type: Article

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