Cognitive aging affects motor performance and learning

J Ren, YD Wu, JSY Chan… - Geriatrics & gerontology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… Besides volumetric reductions, changes in gray and white matter of an aging brain are
readily observed. It is suggested that age-related declines of gray matter in the frontal lobe bring …

Motor control and aging: links to age-related brain structural, functional, and biochemical effects

RD Seidler, JA Bernard, TB Burutolu, BW Fling… - Neuroscience & …, 2010 - Elsevier
… have contributed greatly to our understanding of the aging brain. The impact of age-related …
brain structural volume and motor performance measures, but it is possible that primary …

Age‐related changes in the neural correlates of motor performance

NS Ward, RSJ Frackowiak - Brain, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… to underlie decline in motor and cognitive functions, but … performance level in some people.
Our objective was to investigate age‐related changes in the motor system of the human brain

Systems neuroplasticity in the aging brain: recruiting additional neural resources for successful motor performance in elderly persons

S Heuninckx, N Wenderoth… - Journal of …, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
… of various motor tasks. Old … the aging brain is well documented within the motor system, the
underlying neural mechanisms are still unclear. Based on previous results in cognitive aging

Physical activity, motor performance and skill learning: a focus on primary motor cortex in healthy aging

J Cirillo - Experimental Brain Research, 2021 - Springer
… While motor performance is diminished in older adults, there … motor skills. GABAergic
inhibition may be modulated by the aging process, but whether it contributes to reduced motor

[HTML][HTML] The aging neuromuscular system and motor performance

SK Hunter, HM Pereira… - Journal of applied …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
… Thus, in addition to the reduction in motor performance (eg, … motor performance with
advanced age also includes increased variability between trials and within trials for a given motor

The aging brain: movement speed and spatial control

DG Lamb, LN Correa, TR Seider, DM Mosquera… - Brain and …, 2016 - Elsevier
… Since one goal of this study was to compare changes between right and left hand performance
with aging, all participants recruited for this study were right handed as determined by the …

Aging, complexity, and motor performance

KM Newell, DE Vaillancourt, JJ Sosnoff - … of the psychology of aging, 2006 - Elsevier
… work and skilled motor performance tend to decline over the aging years of adulthood.
Research emphasis of the extant sensory-motor literature on motor control and aging has been …

How the motor system copes with aging: a quantitative meta-analysis of the effect of aging on motor function control

L Zapparoli, M Mariano, E Paulesu - Communications Biology, 2022 - nature.com
… the compensation through overactivation arises in the aging brain. In the same model, they
… to maturation and then aging, whereby motor performance may initially rely also on visual …

Age-related declines in motor performance are associated with decreased segregation of large-scale resting state brain networks

BR King, P Van Ruitenbeek, I Leunissen… - Cerebral …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… This greater task-related activation observed in older adults can simply reflect dedifferentiation
of the aging brain or may be indicative of compensatory mechanisms if it is thought to …