Effects of Age and Sex on Reciprocal Tapping Performance
| Autor: | Irving Biederman, James L. York |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Aged 80 and over Male Aging 05 social sciences Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 030229 sport sciences Middle Aged Age and sex 050105 experimental psychology Sensory Systems Developmental psychology Motor movement 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Reaction Time Humans Tapping Attention Female 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Psychomotor Performance Aged Demography |
| Zdroj: | Perceptual and Motor Skills. 71:675-684 |
| ISSN: | 1558-688X 0031-5125 |
| DOI: | 10.2466/pms.1990.71.2.675 |
| Popis: | Using a reciprocal tapping task (Fitts's task), the speed and accuracy of small-amplitude motor movements of the hand were measured for 62 men and 84 women, 20 to 89 yr. of age. Men and women in their 20s and 30s performed similarly, although men in their 20s displayed a tendency to trade accuracy in favor of speed. Movement time increased noticeably for both men and women beginning with the 40s decade and continued to increase through the 80s decade. Error rates were lower for women than men and were relatively uniform for both men and women across all age decades past 30 yr. Older subjects of both sexes appeared to sacrifice speed (slowed down) to maintain accuracy on the task. The slope of the linear regression relating movement time to task difficulty was steeper for men than for women and increased more for men than women with advancing age, indicating that older men slowed down relatively more than older women on more difficult tasks. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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