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DevelopmentalFeatures of RapidAiming Arm MovementsAcross the Lifespan Jin YanJerry R. ThomasGeorge E. Stelmach2000 год

Developmental Features of Rapid Aiming Arm Movements Across the Lifespan
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Аннотация: Abstract Using a lifespan approach, the authors investigated developmental features of the control of ballistic aiming arm movements by manipulating movement complexity, response uncertainty, and the use of precues. Four different age groups of participants (6- and 9-year-old boys and girls and 24- and 73-year- old men and women, 20 participants in each age group) performed 7 types of rapid aiming arm movements on the surface of a digitizer. Their movement characteristics such as movement velocity, normalized jerk, relative timing, movement linearity, and intersegment intervals were profiled. Analyses of variance with repeated measures were conducted on age and task effects in varying movement complexity (Study 1), response uncertainty (Study 2), and precue use (Study 3) conditions. Young children and senior adults had slower, more variant, less smooth, and less linear arm movements than older children and young adults. Increasing the number of movement segments resulted in slower and more variant responses. Movement accuracy demands or response uncertainty interacted with age so that the 6- and 74-year-old participants had poorer performances but responded similarly to the varying treatments. Even though older children and young adults had better performances than young children and senior adults, their arm movement performance declined when response uncertainty increased. The analyses suggested that young children's and senior adults' performances are poorer because less of their movement is under central control, and they therefore use on-line adjustments. In addition, older children and young adults use a valid precue more effectively to prepare for subsequent movements than do young children and senior adults, suggesting that older children and young adults are more capable of organizing motor responses than arc young children and senior adults.
Год издания: 2000
Авторы: Jin Yan, Jerry R. Thomas, George E. Stelmach, Katherine T. Thomas
Издательство: Taylor & Francis
Источник: Journal of Motor Behavior
Ключевые слова: Motor Control and Adaptation, Muscle activation and electromyography studies, Children's Physical and Motor Development
Другие ссылки: Journal of Motor Behavior (HTML)
PubMed (HTML)