COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF MOVEMENT TIMING CONTROL
Santos, Suely
If old people slow down a given motor response it suggests that they are trying to cope with the task demands according to their own resources or capabilities. Capacities such as muscle size, neural supply, energy stored in muscles, etc. decline with age. However, effective muscular performance does not depend on muscular power alone, but on central controls which determine just how the muscles are co- ordinated and their powers deployed. Ther...