| Title |
A randomised controlled trial investigating motor skill training as a function of attentional focus in old age
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Geriatrics, May 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2318-9-15 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Eling D de Bruin, Jaap Swanenburg, Elsbeth Betschon, Kurt Murer |
| Abstract |
Motor learning research has had little impact on clinical applications and rarely extended to research about how older adults learn motor skills. There is consistent evidence that motor skill performance and learning can be enhanced by giving learners instructions that direct their attention. The aim of this study was to test whether elderly individuals that receive an external focus instruction during training of dynamic balance skills would learn in a different manner compared to individuals that received an internal focus instruction. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Canada | 1 | 100% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 4 | 3% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Poland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 130 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 31 | 22% |
| Researcher | 17 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 28 | 20% |
| Unknown | 24 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Sports and Recreations | 25 | 18% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 23 | 17% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 14 | 10% |
| Psychology | 13 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 12 | 9% |
| Other | 26 | 19% |
| Unknown | 26 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
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#3,259,353
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Outputs from BMC Geriatrics
#866
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#11,323
of 92,621 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Geriatrics
#2
of 6 outputs
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