The Role of Visual Information Quantity in Fine Motor Performance.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Fine motor movements are essential for daily activities, such as handwriting, and rely heavily on visual information to enhance motor complexity and minimize errors. Tracing tasks provide an ecological method for studying these movements and investigating sensorimotor processes. To date, our understanding of the influence of different quantities of visual information on fine motor control remains incomplete. Our study examined how variations in the amount of visual feedback affect motor performance during handwriting tasks using a graphic pen tablet projecting on a monitor.

Methods

Thirty-seven right-handed young adults (20 to 35 years) performed dot-to-dot triangle tracing tasks under nine experimental conditions with varying quantities of visual cues.

SUBMITTER: Panconi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11676225 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature