Motor variability during sustained contractions increases with cognitive demand in older adults

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Vanden Noven, Marnie L ^a   Pereira, Hugo M ^a   Yoon, Tejin ^a   Stevens, Alyssa A ^a   Nielson, Kristy A ^b   Hunter, Sandra K ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Aging; Ankle dorsiflexor muscles; Arousal; Motor variability; Muscle fatigue; Steadiness; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84901365401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00097     Document Type: Article

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