Manual Skills and the Measurement of Handedness

Beck, Lester F.

doi:10.1080/00223980.1936.9917458

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“…volved in acquisition and retention of motor skills (Schmidt, 1988). Over the past several decades, the task has been used to study the psychomotor correlates of several factors, such as sleep deprivation (e.g., Forest & Godbout, 2000), motivation (Kunble, 1950), motor and cognitive dsabilities (Simensen, 1973;Frith & Frith, 1974), stress (Marteniuk & Wenger, 1970), practice schedules (Travis, 1937), handedness (Beck, 1936), fatigue (e.g., Williams & Singer, 1975), performance expectancy (e.g., Brame, 19791, and feedback (e.g., Slayton & Black, 1971).…”

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Reliability of a Computerized Assessment of Psychomotor Performance and its Sensitivity to Alcohol-Induced Impairment

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2003

Percept Mot Skills

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Two experiments examined a new computerized pursuit rotor task that measured psychomotor performance. Exp. 1 examined the acquisition and reliability of performance of 25 adults who performed the task on two sessions separated by a 2-wk. interval. Exp. 2 was a placebo-controlled test of task sensitivity to the performance-impairing effects of a 0.65 g/kg dose of alcohol. Exp. 1 showed that participants' performance was reliable over time. Exp. 2 showed that alcohol-impaired performance compared with placebo. The task could be useful for evaluating performance-impairing effects of other CNS depressant drugs, as well as complementing assessment batteries for research and instruction in studies of motor learning and human performance.

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Reliability of a Computerized Assessment of Psychomotor Performance and its Sensitivity to Alcohol-Induced Impairment

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2003

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“…Scant attention has been directed to the problem of whether or not motor learning 2 shows the same general phenomena of retroaction as do verbal and perceptual learning. It is suggested by Britt (3) that retroactive inhibition has been found in both motor and verbal materials, but his conclusion rests mainly on the work of Webb (25) and Britt and Bunch (4), whose researches were based upon maze performances.…”

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Retroaction and gains in motor learning: I. Similarity of interpolated task as a factor in gains.

Buxton¹,

Henry²

1939

Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Perceptual Asymmetries in the Somatosensory System: A Dichhaptic Experiment and Critical Review of the Literature from 1929 to 1986

Summers¹,

Lederman²

1990

Cortex

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Dichhaptic matching of 3-D nonsense shapes was used to assess sex-specific differences in haptics. In an initial object exploration/description phase, strategy was manipulated with instructions to encode each object using either a visual image (which was drawn) or verbal description (tape recorded). These drawings or tape recordings were subsequently used on their own to identify each object. Attempts were made to maintain similarity between the verbal and spatial procedures, to avoid methodological biasing of hand superiorities (e.g., the same number of alternatives and the same presentation times were used). Differences in hand superiority did not, however, result. To obtain a broader perspective, a critical review table was compiled of the entire somatosensory asymmetry literature. Clear patterns emerged for all types of task when results potentially stemming from methodological biases and those based on only certain levels of samples were excluded. Somatosensory perceptual asymmetries are not robust, although hand superiorities are in the predicted direction when they do occur; nevertheless, we find little support for sex-specific asymmetries in these studies. Dichhaptic presentations lack the efficacy of other somatosensory (as well as tachistoscopic) tasks overall, possibly because of the time scale necessary for free haptic exploration.

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Manual Skills and the Measurement of Handedness

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Reliability of a Computerized Assessment of Psychomotor Performance and its Sensitivity to Alcohol-Induced Impairment

Reliability of a Computerized Assessment of Psychomotor Performance and its Sensitivity to Alcohol-Induced Impairment

Retroaction and gains in motor learning: I. Similarity of interpolated task as a factor in gains.

Perceptual Asymmetries in the Somatosensory System: A Dichhaptic Experiment and Critical Review of the Literature from 1929 to 1986

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