Use of a tracing task to assess visuomotor performance: Effects of age, sex, and handedness

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 938-945

  Stirling, Leia A ^a   Lipsitz, Lewis A ^b,c   Qureshi, Mona ^a   Kelty Stephen, Damian G ^a   Goldberger, Ary L ^a,b   Costa, Madalena D ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional performance; Geriatric assessment; Motor control; Normative aging; Sensory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMATIVE AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY.; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERY ELDERLY;

FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMATIVE AGING; SENSORY.;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX FACTORS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRAIL MAKING TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880525308     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: 1758535X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glt003     Document Type: Article

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