Visually encoded working memory is closely associated with mobility in older adults

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2035-2043

  Kawagoe, Toshikazu ^a   Sekiyama, Kaoru ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age related change; Cognitive decline; Face working memory; Spatial working memory; Timed up and go test

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEXTERITY TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PEG BOARD TEST; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIMED UP AND GO TEST; VERY ELDERLY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKING MEMORY; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION DISORDERS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84902546166     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-3893-1     Document Type: Article

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