Development of visuomotor coordination in school‐age children: The bimanual coordination test

Steese‐Seda, Deborah; Brown, Warren S.; Caetano, Carla

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“…The cBCT assesses speed and accuracy when one or both hands must move a cursor through narrow angled paths presented on a computer screen when one hand controls vertical movement and the other controls horizontal movement. Performance on individual angled paths is grouped according to type of movement required, reflecting three functional domains (Marion et al, 2003;Steese-Seda et al, 1995). Performance on unimanual angles reflects simple motor speed.…”

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Bimanual coordination in alcohol-exposed children: Role of the corpus callosum

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Marion

et al. 2004

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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The corpus callosum (CC) is one of several brain structures affected in children prenatally exposed to alcohol. This structure plays a major role in coordinating motor activity from opposite sides of the body, and deficits in bimanual coordination have been documented in individuals with agenesis of or damage to the CC, particularly when the task is performed without visual feedback. The Bimanual Coordination Test was used to assess speed and accuracy on a task where both hands must coordinate to guide a cursor through angled pathways providing measures of interhemispheric interaction or the ability of the two hemispheres to coordinate activity via the corpus callosum. Twenty-one children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and 17 non-exposed control children (CON), matched closely in age, sex, and ethnicity were tested. For trials with visual feedback (WV), children with FASD were slower than CON children but were equally accurate. Although statistically significant group differences were not observed on most trials completed without visual feedback (WOV), accuracy of the FASD group on WOV trials was highly variable. Group differences in accuracy on WOV angles approached significance after accounting for performance on the WV angles, and children with FASD were significantly less accurate on an individual angle believed to be particularly sensitive to interhemispheric interaction. These results indicate that children with FASD are slower than CON children but equally accurate on basic visuomotor tasks. However, as task complexity and reliance on interhemispheric interaction increases, children with FASD demonstrate variable and inaccurate performance.

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Bimanual coordination in alcohol-exposed children: Role of the corpus callosum

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et al. 2004

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“…O ther studies have used variations of the bim anual coordination task developed by Preilow ski (1972,1975), in w hich each hand m oves a handle linked to a specific coordinate axis (i.e., one hand for the x-axis and the other hand for the y-axis) to draw pictures. R esults with this task show ed that bim anual coordination, both in speed and accuracy, significantly increases w ith age, from 6 to 13 years old and from 6 to 15 years old (Steese-Seda, Brow n, &Caetano, 1995, andM arion, Kilian, N aram or, &Brown, 2003, resp ec tively). Furtherm ore, conditions requiring m ore asym m etric perform ance betw een hands and conditions w ithout visual feed back significantly w orsen bim anual perform ance (M arion et al, 2003).…”

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Executed and imagined bimanual movements: A study across different ages.

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Garbarini

Rabuffetti

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Developmental Psychology

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Movements with both hands are essential to our everyday life, and it has been shown that performing asymmetric bimanual movements produces an interference effect between hands. There have been many studies--using varying methods--investigating the development of bimanual movements that show that this skill continues to evolve during childhood and adolescence. In the current study we used a spatial bimanual task to delineate the development of bimanual movements not only during different stages of childhood but also during late stages of adulthood. Furthermore, we used the same task as a window to observe the involvement of motor imagery through the same age groups. For this study we recruited participants from 4 different age groups and asked them to perform congruent and noncongruent bimanual movements in a Real condition, where participants moved both hands, and in an Imagery condition, where they had to imagine 1 hand's movements while actually using the other hand. Our results showed that, with actual movement execution, the interference between motor programs of the 2 hands is higher in children (6-10 years old) than in younger adults (20-30 years old), while it tends to increase again in the elderly adults (60-80 years old). Interestingly, in the Imagery condition, the interference was present only among 10-year-old and 20- to 30-year-old participants, suggesting that motor imagery, not yet developed in young children and compromised by age in the elderly subjects, did not modulate motor performance in these last 2 groups.

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“…Other recent neuropsychological research has provided support for the sensitivity of sensory-tactile integration tasks to the integrity of more global brain-behavior function. Steese-Seda. Brown, and Caetano (1995) administered both a visuomotor bimanual coordination task and the TPT to a group of children and obtained significant positive correlations between performance on these two tasks, suggesting that they may share some common brain-behavior developmental aspects.…”

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Validating a cognitive ability testing protocol with Lao children for community development applications.

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The emergence of the sociocultural perspective in cross-cultural psychology has discouraged the adaptation of standardized tests in nonindustrialized settings. Yet, cognitive assessments are needed for monitoring the effects of nutritional, health, and educational interventions. Forty-seven Lao children 5 to 12 years of age completed the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC), the Tactual Performance Test (TPT), and the computerized Tests of Variables of Attention (TOVA). TPT performance measures were related to physical (nutritional) development, whereas the K-ABC global cognitive ability indicators were sensitive to parental education and quality of home environment. TOVA performance was related to K-ABC global performance and TPT memory, suggesting thai Ihese measures are at least partially undergirded by attentional ability. Sociocultural concerns aside, these findings suggest that validated neuropsychological and cognitive assessments can be adapted that effectively tap basic and universal brain-behavior traits. Emphasized throughout the international developmental literature is the need for evaluative techniques with at-risk children that are culturally valid yet sensitive to the cognitive benefits derived from educational and health interventions

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Development of visuomotor coordination in school‐age children: The bimanual coordination test

Cited by 20 publications

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Bimanual coordination in alcohol-exposed children: Role of the corpus callosum

Bimanual coordination in alcohol-exposed children: Role of the corpus callosum

Executed and imagined bimanual movements: A study across different ages.

Validating a cognitive ability testing protocol with Lao children for community development applications.

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