Effects of the Presence of Obstacles on the Attentional Demand of Blind Navigation in Young and Elderly Subjects

The ability to navigate with limited vision is a skill that is often employed in our daily lives. Navigating without vision to a remembered target has previously been studied. However, not much is known about the attention required to perform blind navigation. We examined the effect of aging and pre...

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Main Author: Richer, Natalie
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/22869