A kinematic analysis of age-related changes in grasping to use and grasping to move common objects

Cicerale, Alessandro; Ambron, Elisabetta; Lingnau, Angelika; Rumiati, Raffaella I.

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.06.004

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“…Changes in the kinematics of reaching and grasping as a function of age are commonly reported (e.g., Buckles, 1993;Contreras-Vidal et al, 1998;Darling et al, 1989); however, age-related performance differences are not always observed (Carnahan et al, 1998;Cicerale et al, 2014;Varadhan et al, 2012). It has therefore been argued that poor performance due to the inability of older adults to deal with unfamiliar, ecologically atypical tasks (e.g., Cicerale et al, 2014) as aging studies have typically used meaningless objects (Cicerale et al, 2014). As such, this study sought to investigate the effects of aging on planning and control processes in an everyday task (i.e., picking up a glass).…”

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“…In spite of these reports, age‐related performance differences are not always observed (Carnahan, Vandervoort & Swanson, ; Cicerale, Ambron, Lingnau, & Rumiati, ; Varadhan, Zhang, Zatsiorsky, & Latash, ). Therefore, an alternate argument is that older adults display poor performance because of the unfamiliarity of the laboratory tasks they have been asked to perform (Bennett & Castiello, ; Bock & Steinberg, ; Carnahan et al, ; Cicerale et al, ; Varadhan et al, ). In other words, older adults are more adept when acting in natural tasks and do not differ from young adults in these contexts.…”

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How the mode of action affects evidence of planning and movement kinematics in aging: End‐state comfort in older adults

Scharoun

Gonzalez

Roy

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Developmental Psychobiology

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Motor deficits are commonly observed with age; however, it has been argued that older adults are more adept when acting in natural tasks and do not differ from young adults in these contexts. This study assessed end-state comfort and movement kinematics in a familiar task to examine this further. Left- and right-handed older adults picked up a glass (upright or overturned) as if to pour water in four modes of action (pantomime, pantomime with image/cup as a guide, actual grasping). With increasing age, a longer deceleration phase (in pantomime without a stimulus) and less end-state comfort (in pantomime without a stimulus and image as a guide) was displayed as the amount of contextual information available to guide movement decreased. Changes in movement strategies likely reflect an increased reliance on feedback control and demonstration of a more cautious movement. A secondary aim of this study was to assess hand preference and performance, considering conflicting reports of manual asymmetries with age. Performance differences in the Grooved Pegboard place task indicate left handers may display a shift towards right handedness in some, but not all cases. Summarizing, this study supports age-related differences in planning and control processes in a familiar task, and changes in manual asymmetries with age in left handers.

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How the mode of action affects evidence of planning and movement kinematics in aging: End‐state comfort in older adults

Scharoun

Gonzalez

Roy

et al. 2015

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…Although several studies have reported poorer performance of gross movements in older adults (e.g., Ketcham et al, 2002;Ketcham & Stelmach, 2001), other research (Carnahan, Vandervoort, & Swanson, 1998;Cicerale et al, 2014;Grabowski & Mason, 2014) found similar MTs and velocities in young and older adults' reaching movements. Our results are consistent with these latter studies.…”

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Manual dexterity in young and healthy older adults. 1. Age‐ and gender‐related differences in unimanual and bimanual performance

Vasylenko

Gorecka

Rodríguez‐Aranda

2018

Developmental Psychobiology

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This study aimed to better characterize age-related differences in dexterity by using an integrative approach where movement times and kinematics were measured for both hands. Forty-five young (age 19-31) and 55 healthy older adults (age 60-88) were evaluated during unimanual and bimanual performance of the Purdue Pegboard Test. Gender effects were also assessed. From video-recorded data, movement times and kinematics were obtained for reaching, grasping, transport, and inserting. Results showed that older adults had longer movement times for grasping and inserting with the right hand, and across all movements with the left hand. Kinematic differences were found in path length, linear, and angular velocity. The patterns of slowing were similar in unimanual and bimanual tasks. Gender effects showed more slowing in older males than older females. Age differences in dexterity not only comprise slowing of movements but also kinematic alterations. The importance of gender in hand function was demonstrated.

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“…A third explanation is that, similarly to manual aiming tasks, the current grasping task (or grasping behaviour in general) was not operationally or cognitively complex enough to reveal age-related effects (Bruijn et al 2012; King et al 2013). For example, participants were not required to perform any secondary actions after the grasp, which have previously been shown to alter grasp kinematics with varying task complexity (Ansuini et al 2006, 2008; Cicerale et al 2014). Thus, a more goal-directed reach and grasp response and/or a secondary distractor task (e.g.…”

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“…Indeed, this could also explain the greater scale of grasp adaptation in decreased haptic size conditions for older adults, whereby it is easier to decrease their “overstretched” MGA in no-conflict conditions to the smaller blocks in conflict conditions. It is unclear why older adults would adopt a larger grasp aperture prior to introducing the conflict, but could be related to i) increased uncertainty in movement planning which could lead to safety behaviour to avoid a collision (Wing et al 1986; Schlicht and Schrater 2007b, a), ii) a task requirement effect whereby less goal-directed movements may alter older adults’ grasp kinematics (Cicerale et al 2014), iii) a grasping precision effect (Grabowski and Mason 2014) or iv) other anatomical/physiological changes to the ageing hand (Carmeli et al 2003). …”

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How does ageing affect grasp adaptation to a visual–haptic size conflict?

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Previous research suggests that the ability to adapt motor behaviour to sudden environmental changes may be impaired in older adults. Here, we investigated whether the adaptation of grasping behaviour in response to a visual–haptic size conflict is also affected by increasing age. 30 older and 18 young adults were instructed to grasp a hidden block whilst viewing a second block in a congruent position. Initially block sizes were equal, but after a set number of trials a sensory conflict was introduced by covertly changing the hidden block for a smaller or larger block. The scale and speed of maximum grasp aperture adaptation to the increase or decrease in the size of the hidden block was measured. Older adults successfully adapted to the visual–haptic size conflict in a similar manner to young adults, despite a tendency to adapt less when the hidden block increased in size. This finding is attributed to the physical capabilities of the grasping hand of older adults, rather than an effect of age-related sensory or cognitive decline. The speed of grasp adaptation did not differ between age groups; however, awareness of the visual–haptic conflict lead to faster adaptation. These findings suggest that sensorimotor adaptation for grasping is intact for cognitively healthy older adults.

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A kinematic analysis of age-related changes in grasping to use and grasping to move common objects

Cited by 21 publications

References 70 publications

How the mode of action affects evidence of planning and movement kinematics in aging: End‐state comfort in older adults

How the mode of action affects evidence of planning and movement kinematics in aging: End‐state comfort in older adults

Manual dexterity in young and healthy older adults. 1. Age‐ and gender‐related differences in unimanual and bimanual performance

How does ageing affect grasp adaptation to a visual–haptic size conflict?

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