Journal article
Unimanual and Bimanual Continuous Movements Benefit From Visual Instructions in Persons With Down Syndrome
Journal of motor behavior, Vol.44(4), pp.233-239
07/01/2012
DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2012.684909
PMID: 22616749
Abstract
The authors' aim was to understand how persons with Down syndrome (DS) perform different tasks and to assess if there were any differences in performance based on the type of instructions. This is important because of neurological differences in persons with DS and neurological demands for performing different types of tasks. Twenty right-handed participants with DS, 20 chronological age-matched (CA), and 20 mental age-matched (MA) performed unimanual, bimanual, discrete, and continuous drumming following visual, auditory, and verbal instructions. Overall, discrete drumming was performed with shorter movement times than continuous drumming and unimanual drumming was performed with shorter movement amplitude than bimanual drumming. With respect to instructions, persons with DS performed with smaller amplitudes, thus more efficient movements, following the visual instructions than auditory and verbal instructions for all types of tasks, whereas CA performed similarly with all instructions and MA performed with smaller amplitudes with visual instructions than auditory instructions. These results suggest that visual instruction provides the best information for people with DS to aid in performance of many different types of movements.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Unimanual and Bimanual Continuous Movements Benefit From Visual Instructions in Persons With Down Syndrome
- Creators
- Shannon D. R. Ringenbach - Arizona State UniversityGenna M. Mulvey - Arizona State UniversityChih-Chia (J. J.) Chen - Arizona State UniversityMichelle L. Jung - Arizona State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of motor behavior, Vol.44(4), pp.233-239
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- DOI
- 10.1080/00222895.2012.684909
- PMID
- 22616749
- ISSN
- 0022-2895
- eISSN
- 1940-1027
- Number of pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2012
- Academic Unit
- Health and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984771653302771
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