From children to adults: Motor performance across the life-span

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Leversen, Jonas S R ^a   Haga, Monika ^a   Sigmundsson, Hermundur ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RUNNING; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862502168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038830     Document Type: Article

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