TY - JOUR
T1 - Developmental differences in the use of visual information during a continuous bimanual coordination task
AU - Lantero, Dawn A.
AU - Ringenbach, Shannon
N1 - Funding Information:
A $2,000 Graduate Student Research Grant from the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA) provided financial support for this study. This study was conducted as partial fulfillment for the dissertation of the primary author. We appreciate the invaluable input from Eric Amazeen, Polemnia Amazeen, Natalia Dounskaia, and Pamela Kulinna. We would like to express our sincerest thanks to Anna Balp for her unwavering assistance with data collection. In addition, we thank all of our participants and their families for taking the time out of their schedules to lend their circle-drawing talents for the benefits of research. We are grateful for the insightful comments and helpful suggestions from our reviewers. Finally, we extend a heartfelt thank you to Jill Pankey for her artist rendition of our testing apparatus illustrated in Figure 1, which she produced with very short notice.
PY - 2007/3
Y1 - 2007/3
N2 - The authors examined the influence of different amounts of visual information when children 4 (CH4), 6 (CH6), and 8 (CH8) years of age, and adults (n = 12 in each group) performed a steady-state bimanual circle-drawing coordination task at self-selected speeds. All participants maintained in-phase coordination, but different strategies for maintaining the pattern emerged. A predictable relationship between variability and age was not observed, in that the CH8 group was not necessarily more consistent than the CH6 and CH4 groups. The authors conclude that children are transitioning from dependence on kinesthetic feedback to reliance on visual feedback around age 8, as suggested by L. Hay, C. Bard, M. Fleury, and N. Teasdale (1991; L. Hay, M. Fleury, C. Bard, & N. Teasdale, 1994; L. Hay & C. Redon, 1997), and that future studies are needed to further explore visual and kinesthetic feedback as potential control parameters during coordination tasks in developing children.
AB - The authors examined the influence of different amounts of visual information when children 4 (CH4), 6 (CH6), and 8 (CH8) years of age, and adults (n = 12 in each group) performed a steady-state bimanual circle-drawing coordination task at self-selected speeds. All participants maintained in-phase coordination, but different strategies for maintaining the pattern emerged. A predictable relationship between variability and age was not observed, in that the CH8 group was not necessarily more consistent than the CH6 and CH4 groups. The authors conclude that children are transitioning from dependence on kinesthetic feedback to reliance on visual feedback around age 8, as suggested by L. Hay, C. Bard, M. Fleury, and N. Teasdale (1991; L. Hay, M. Fleury, C. Bard, & N. Teasdale, 1994; L. Hay & C. Redon, 1997), and that future studies are needed to further explore visual and kinesthetic feedback as potential control parameters during coordination tasks in developing children.
KW - Bimanual coordination
KW - Children
KW - Feedback
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U2 - 10.3200/JMBR.39.2.139-157
DO - 10.3200/JMBR.39.2.139-157
M3 - Article
C2 - 17428759
AN - SCOPUS:33947643071
SN - 0022-2895
VL - 39
SP - 139
EP - 155
JO - Journal of motor behavior
JF - Journal of motor behavior
IS - 2
ER -