Nab, E.J. (Erik Jan) (2018) The Effect of Age on the Capability to Resist Physical Perturbations whilst performing an Upper-Limb Fine Motor Task. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
Full text available on request.Abstract
Lowering cognitive demand of a motor task by means of automatizing it, can influence the impact of an external interference on the performance of the respective motor task. Current research does not give a straight conclusion as to whether older adults are still able to successfully learn a new task to the level of automatizing it, such that they become more resistant against external interferences. In the current study, healthy younger (n=20) and older (n=15) righthanded adults learned to perform a tracing task. Before and after learning the task, participants were exposed to an external interference in the form of a force field. Older adults improved their resistance against the external interference. In addition, older adults improved performance at a similar rate as younger adults. However, older adults performed worse in terms of movement time and resistance against the external interference compared to younger adults. It is suggested that older adults might be able to improve their resistance against external interferences to a similar level as younger adults, provided they practice for a longer time period than the two-day period in the current study. Key words: Motor skill, Motor Learning, Automatization, Ageing, Force Field, Haptic Device
| Item Type: | Thesis (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Supervisor name: | Murgia, dr. A. and Caljouw, dr. S.R. |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 23 May 2022 10:27 |
| Last Modified: | 23 May 2022 10:27 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3423 |
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