Functional Autonomy Affects Elderly Spatial Perception in Body-Centered Coordinates.

In conclusion, the individual functional autonomy of elderly individuals, which is strongly influenced by motor resources and efficiency, modulates how the surrounding space is represented, but only when the distance judgment implies an agent body, thus providing new relevant data for recent embodied cognition models of aging. PMID: 32148961 [PubMed]
Source: Journal of Aging Research - Category: Geriatrics Tags: J Aging Res Source Type: research