Fast but fleeting: Adaptive motor learning processes associated with aging and cognitive decline

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 13411-13421

  Trewartha, Kevin M ^a,b   Garcia, Angeles ^a,b   Wolpert, Daniel M ^c   Flanagan, J Randall ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Explicit memory; Human; Motor control; Motor learning; State space model

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING TEST; COGNITION; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; KINEMATICS; LEARNING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STROOP TEST; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907545981     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1489-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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