Differences in motor control of an aiming task in different group ages of the elderly
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Aims: This study aimed to investigate how different age groups of older adults perform and control movements in a goal-directed aiming task and the importance of visual feedback during these movements. Methods: Participants included 22 old adults, divided in two age groups: younger (60-70 yr) and older (80-90 yr). Subjects performed the task in a condition with vision and in a condition where vision was deprived. Results: In the vision condition, younger subjects showed smaller movement and reaction times, smaller radial errors, higher peak velocities, lower relative times to reach peak velocity than older subjects. In the vision-deprived condition the same results were found, except for radial error measure, where no significant effect for age groups was found. Conclusion: Younger subjects seemed to rely more on visual online feedback than older subjects and older subjects use other sensory sources to meet the possible deficits of information obtained by vision.
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Envelhecimento, Capacidade motora, Percepção visual do movimento
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Aging, Motor control, Aiming, Visual feedback
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https://www.scielo.br/j/motriz/a/KN3RvnvLKmMVGh7rXwPthDk/?lang=en