Neural predictors of motor control and impact of visuo-proprioceptive information in youth.

ABSTRACT: For successful motor control, the central nervous system is required to combine information from the environment and the current body state, which is provided by vision and proprioception respectively. We investigated the relative contribution of visual and proprioceptive information to upper limb motor control and the extent to which structural brain measures predict this performance in youth (n = 40; age range 9-18 years). Participants performed a manual tracking task, adopting in-phase and anti-phase coordination modes. Results showed that, in contrast to older participants, younger participants performed the task with lower accuracy in general and poorer performance in anti-phase than in-phase modes. However, a proprioceptive advantage was found at all ages, that is, tracking accuracy

SUBMITTER: Corporaal SHA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6866951 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature