Altered visual-spatial attention to task-irrelevant information is associated with falls risk in older adults

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3025-3032

  Nagamatsu, Lindsay S ^a,b   Munkacsy, Michelle ^b   Liu Ambrose, Teresa ^a,b   Handy, Todd C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR HIP HEALTH AND MOBILITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Event related potentials (ERPs); Falls risk; Neuroimaging; Visual spatial attention

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALTERED VISUAL SPATIAL ATTENTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACILITATION; FALL RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84887909615     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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