Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 295-299 , March 2010

Adult age differences in familiarization to treadmill walking within virtual environments

  • Michael Schellenbach

      Affiliations

    • Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    • Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, D-14195 Berlin, Germany. Tel.: +49 30 82406296; fax: +49 30 8249939.
    • ,
  • Martin Lövdén

      Affiliations

    • Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    • Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Julius Verrel

      Affiliations

    • Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Antonio Krüger

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
    • ,
  • Ulman Lindenberger

      Affiliations

    • Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Received 18 December 2008 ,Revised 25 August 2009 ,Accepted 8 November 2009.

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PII: S0966-6362(09)00660-2

doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.11.008

Gait & Posture
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 295-299 , March 2010

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