Aging and Motor Control
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Aging and motor control.
The goal of the two experiments of the present study was to determine whether in an aiming task performed within a relatively long movement time (MT) bandwidth, older adults make similar use of visual information for motor control as younger adults. Older and younger subjects practiced a manual aiming task toward one (Experiment 1), or one of many (Experiment 2) small target(s) while only the t...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1079-5014,1758-5368
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/51b.6.p346