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SUBMITTER: Raw RK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6366788 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Raw Rachael K RK Wilkie Richard M RM Allen Richard J RJ Warburton Matthew M Leonetti Matteo M Williams Justin H G JHG Mon-Williams Mark M
PloS one 20190207 2
Some activities can be meaningfully dichotomised as 'cognitive' or 'sensorimotor' in nature-but many cannot. This has radical implications for understanding activity limitation in disability. For example, older adults take longer to learn the serial order of a complex sequence but also exhibit slower, more variable and inaccurate motor performance. So is their impaired skill acquisition a cognitive or motor deficit? We modelled sequence learning as a process involving a limited capacity buffer ( ...[more]