Perceptuo-motor learning rate declines by half from 20s to 70/80s

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-84

  Coats, Rachel O ^a,c   Snapp Childs, Winona ^a   Wilson, Andrew D ^b   Bingham, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Learning; Older adults; Perception; Rhythmic coordination

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUOMOTOR LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877041518     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3349-4     Document Type: Article

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