Attentional costs of visually guided walking: Effects of age, executive function and stepping-task demands

Gait and Posture

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 182-186

  Mazaheri, Masood ^a   Roerdink, Melvyn ^a   Bood, Robert Jan ^a   Duysens, Jacques ^b   Beek, Peter J ^a,c   Peper, C Lieke E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Dual task; Executive function; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESPONSE TIME; TREADMILL; VISUALLY GUIDED WALKING; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901063828     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2014.03.183     Document Type: Article

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