Age-related changes in the spatiotemporal structure of simple cyclical graphic movements performed at the maximal rate: I. The increase in the movement rate is accounted for by reduction of the number of submovements in a movement cycle |
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Authors: | A V Kurgansky M E Kurgansky |
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Institution: | 1.Institute of Developmental Physiology,Russian Academy of Education,Moscow,Russia;2.Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology,Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow,Russia |
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Abstract: | Right-handed subjects from four age groups, including children aged 5–6, 8–9, and 11–12 years and adults, performed simple
cyclical graphic movements of different degrees of coordination and serial complexity at the maximum possible rate with the
right and left hands holding the stylus either with their fingers or in the fist. The period of the cyclical movement decreased
with age, the decrease depending on which hand (the right or the left) was used and how the stylus was held. The frequency
of submovements only slightly depended on the age, was the same for the right and left hands, but did not depend on the type
of movement or the way of holding the stylus. The age-related increase in the maximal rate of graphic movements may have been
almost entirely accounted for by a decrease in the number of submovements constituting the movement cycle. The results are
discussed in terms of the notion of submovements as “elementary units” of graphic movements. |
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