An older view on distance perception: Older adults perceive walkable extents as farther

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 383-391

  Sugovic, Mila ^a   Witt, Jessica K ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Action specific perception; Distance perception; Effort; Older adults; Perception action relationships

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BUILDING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPACE PERCEPTION; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877874855     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3447-y     Document Type: Article

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