Contralateral Transfer of the Phenomenon of Repeated Bout Rate Enhancement in Unilateral Index Finger Tapping

Hansen, Ernst Albin; Bak, Søren; Knudsen, Lasse; Seiferheld, Bo Eitel; Stevenson, Andrew James Thomas; Emanuelsen, Anders

doi:10.1080/00222895.2019.1592101

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“…Bout C consisted of 180 s of tapping at a freely chosen tapping rate. In order to do so, the participant was instructed to "tap in a relaxed and natural way and apply a preferred rhythm" (Hansen et al, 2020). It was emphasised that the tapping was neither supposed to be performed as fast as possible nor with as high a force as possible.…”

Section: Apparatus and Taskmentioning

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History Dependence of Freely Chosen Index Finger Tapping Rhythmicity

Nielsen

Fjordside

Jensen

et al. 2022

IJMCL

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Motor BehaviorMotor Control Plasticity Preferred Tapping Frequency Rhythmic MovementBackground: To test the following hypothesis. Initial submaximal tapping at preset relatively low and high target tapping rates causes a subsequent freely chosen tapping rate to be relatively low and high, respectively, as compared with a reference freely chosen tapping rate. Methods: Participants performed three 3-min bouts of submaximal index finger tapping on separate days. In one bout (C, considered reference), the rate was freely chosen, throughout. In another bout (A), initial tapping was performed at a relatively low target rate and followed by freely chosen tapping. In yet another bout (B), initial tapping was performed at a relatively high target rate, followed by freely chosen tapping. Results: At the end of bout A, the rate was 14.6±23.7% lower than the reference value during bout C (p = 0.023). At the end of bout B, the rate was similar to the rate during bout C (p = 0.804). Conclusions: Initial tapping at a preset relatively low target rate caused a subsequent freely chosen rate to be lower than a reference freely chosen rate. The observation was denoted a phenomenon of motor behavioural history dependence. Initial tapping at a preset relatively high target rate did not elicit history dependence.

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Section: Apparatus and Taskmentioning

confidence: 99%