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01-11-2012 | Original Article

Representation of grasp postures and anticipatory motor planning in children

Auteurs: Tino Stöckel, Charmayne M. L. Hughes, Thomas Schack

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 6/2012

Abstract

In this study, we investigated anticipatory motor planning and the development of cognitive representation of grasp postures in children aged 7, 8, and 9 years. Overall, 9-year-old children were more likely to plan their movements to end in comfortable postures, and have distinct representational structures of certain grasp postures, compared to the 7- and 8-year old children. Additionally, the sensitivity toward comfortable end-states (end-state comfort) was related to the mental representation of certain grasp postures. Children with grasp comfort related and functionally well-structured representations were more likely to have satisfied end-state comfort in both the simple and the advanced planning condition. In contrast, end-state comfort satisfaction for the advanced planning condition was much lower for children whose cognitive representations were not structured by grasp comfort. The results of the present study support the notion that cognitive action representation plays an important role in the planning and control of grasp postures.

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Based on previous research demonstrating that grasping behaviour in the bar transport task is relatively consistent between trials (e.g., Thibaut and Toussaint, 2010; Weigelt and Schack, 2010) and that behaviour should be similar irrespective of initial bar orientation (black end oriented to the right, black end oriented to the left), we used two trials per condition to test for end-state comfort sensitivity.

See a detailed description of the SDA-M in the electronic supplementary material.

Although the majority of children clustered the pictures with ambiguous grasps (pictures 2, 4, 6) with the comfortable grasps (pictures 1, 3, 5), they were not used in the classification of group affiliation.

We thank an anonymous reviewer for pointing out this possibility.

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Titel: Representation of grasp postures and anticipatory motor planning in children
Auteurs: Tino Stöckel
Charmayne M. L. Hughes
Thomas Schack
Publicatiedatum: 01-11-2012
Uitgeverij: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 6/2012
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-011-0387-7

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