A note on motor skill acquisition in mild and moderate Down syndrome individuals
| Autor: | Edison de Jesus Manoel, Marcelo Luis Marquezi, Roberto Gimenez, Ernani Xavier Filho |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Movement timing
030506 rehabilitation Down syndrome medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Practice effect lcsh:BF1-990 SÍNDROME DE DOWN Behavioral neuroscience Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences Physical medicine and rehabilitation Motor skill acquisition medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences One-target advantage Psychology(all) Motor skill Research Psychological research 05 social sciences medicine.disease Target directed movement lcsh:Psychology 0305 other medical science Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, Volume: 30, Article number: 6, Published: 18 MAY 2017 Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, Vol 30, Iss 0 (2017) Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica v.30 2017 Psicologia (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Online) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) instacron:UFRGS Psicologia, Reflexão e Crítica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS |
| Popis: | This study investigated the acquisition of a serial motor skill in individuals with Down syndrome with two levels of handicap, mild group (mean age = 14.5 years, SD = 2.3, 7 individuals) and moderate group (mean age = 15.2 years, SD = 3.2, 7 individuals). The task involved single-arm sequential movements to five. The measures to access performance were overall sequence error, reaction time, and total movement time. To evaluate action program, formation variability of sequencing and relative timing variability were considered. Although there was no clear practice effect, the results showed that the level of handicap led to different strategies to plan and control the actions. The moderate group presented a less stable action program expressed in the variability in sequencing and timing. Their longer reaction times also suggest a heavy demand on central processing in accord with the one-target advantage hypothesis and also due to memory deficits to select and plan movements. |
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