Age-related differences in motor imagery: Working memory as a mediator

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 559-583

  Schott, Nadja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868245681     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2012.726045     Document Type: Article

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