Acquisition of chopstick-operation skills with the non-dominant hand and concomitant changes in brain activity.

ABSTRACT: Despite their common use as eating utensils in East Asia, chopsticks require complex fine motor-skills for adequate operation and are thus most frequently used with the dominant hand; however, the effect of training time on the proficiency of using chopsticks with the non-dominant hand, as well as the brain activity underlying changes in skill, remain unclear. This study characterised the effect of time spent training in chopstick operation with the non-dominant hand on chopstick-use proficiency and the related brain activity to obtain data that may help individuals who are obliged to change handedness due to neurological disease to learn to use their non-dominant hand in performing daily activities. Thirty-two healthy right-handed students were randomly allocated to training (n = 16) or c

SUBMITTER: Sawamura D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6938489 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature