Your brain on speed: Cognitive performance of a spatial working memory task is not affected by walking speed

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Kline, Julia E ^a   Poggensee, Katherine ^a   Ferris, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Dual tasking; EEG; Locomotion; Spatial working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BROOKS SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY TASK; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL-TASK PERFORMANCE (TEST); DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL COGNITIVE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING SPEED; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84900544793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00288     Document Type: Article

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