Motor Skills

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Neurodegenerative disease and the evolution of art: the effects of presumed corticobasal degeneration in a professional artist.

Production of art is a complex process involving a combination of technical skill and a unique talent. Changes in artistic ability may accompany neurodegenerative disorders when they occur in an artist. The nature of these changes in the context of ...
Galit Kleiner-Fisman, Sandra E Black, Anthony E Lang (Mov Disord, 200303)
neurodegenerative-disease-evolution-art-effects-presumed-corticobasal.asp

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Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus enhances emotional processing in Parkinson disease.

BACKGROUND: High-frequency electrical stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus is a new and highly effective therapy for complications of long-term levodopa therapy and motor symptoms in advanced Parkinson disease (PD). Clinical observations indicate ...
Frank Schneider, Ute Habel, Jens Volkmann, Sabine Regel, Jürgen Kornischka, Volker Sturm, Hans-Joachim Freund (Arch Gen Psychiatry, 200303)
deep-brain-stimulation-subthalamic-nucleus-enhances-emotional.asp

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Influence of a motor skill intervention on fundamental motor skill development of disadvantaged preschool children.

The influence of a 12-week (24, 45-min motor sessions) motor skill intervention on fundamental motor skill (FMS) development of disadvantaged preschools was examined. Pre-and postintervention measures of the object control (OC) and locomotor subscales of ...
Jacqueline D Goodway, Crystal F Branta (Res Q Exerc Sport, 200303)
influence-motor-skill-intervention-fundamental-motor-skill.asp

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Training with an upper-limb prosthetic simulator to enhance transfer of skill across limbs.

OBJECTIVE: To examine what effect bilateral transfer of movement across limbs may have in a persons ability to learn use of an upper-limb prosthetic simulator. DESIGN: Randomized trial. SETTING: University laboratory. PARTICIPANTS: Able-bodied subjects ...
Douglas L Weeks, Stephen A Wallace, David I Anderson (Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 200303)
training-upper-limb-prosthetic-simulator-enhance-transfer-skill.asp

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Covert muscle excitation is outflow from the central generation of motor imagery.

Two studies were conducted in an attempt to examine inflow and outflow processing by examining covert muscle excitation during motor imagery (MI) and its correlation with motor task performance. Examining 80 novice dart throwers in Experiment 1, MI ...
Rafer S Lutz (Behav Brain Res, 200303)
covert-muscle-excitation-outflow-central-generation-motor-imagery.asp

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Coarticulation in fluent fingerspelling.

In speech, the phenomenon of coarticulation (differentiation of phoneme production depending on the preceding or following phonemes) suggests an organization of movement sequences that is not strictly serial. In the skeletal motor system, however, ...
Thomas E Jerde, John F Soechting, Martha Flanders (J Neurosci, 200303)
coarticulation-fluent-fingerspelling.asp

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Part and whole perceptual-motor practice of a polyrhythm.

An experiment is reported that investigated the effectiveness of receiving the perceptual experience of a bimanual, 2:3 polyrhythm during motor practice of the unimanual parts of the polyrhythm. Thirty-six participants were randomly assigned to one of ...
Sarah Kurtz, Timothy D Lee (Neurosci Lett, 200303)
part-whole-perceptual-motor-practice-polyrhythm.asp

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The biological age of prepubescent and pubescent children with low and high motor efficiency.

The aim of the study was to analyze the relations between some criteria of the biological age (growth age, biological proportional age) and motor efficiency in school-aged boys and girls (8-9 and 12-13 years old) with considerably above-average and ...
A Suchomel (Anthropol Anz, 200303)
biological-age-prepubescent-pubescent-children-low-high-motor.asp

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Differentiating visual and kinesthetic imagery in mental practice.

Through two experiments, the study sought to emphasize the usefulness of the visual and kinesthetic imagery in mental practice. In Experiment 1, it was hypothesized that when the task to be learned through mental practice necessitates the reproduction of ...
Yves-André Féry (Can J Exp Psychol, 200303)
differentiating-visual-kinesthetic-imagery-mental-practice.asp

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Comparing the effect of different design of desks with regard to motor accuracy in writing performance of students with cerebral palsy.

This study was conducted to examine the effect of ergonomic desk design for improving motor accuracy in the writing performance of cerebral palsy students. Thirty-two cerebral palsy students were tested in four workstations. The test order was ...
I-hsuan Shen, Sue-may Kang, Ching-yi Wu (Appl Ergon, 200303)
comparing-effect-different-design-desks-regard-motor-accuracy-writing.asp