Changes in Interhemispheric Transfer Rate and the Development of Bimanual Coordination during Childhood

Fagard, Jacqueline; Hardy-Léger, Isabelle; Kervella, Claude; Marks, Anne

doi:10.1006/jecp.2000.2623

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“…The time taken to draw the line (in seconds), accuracy (error length in pixels), and the absolute time lag between the two hands (faster hand À slower hand) were the three variables considered. A detailed analysis of the results will not be exposed here since these results are similar to other results already published (Fagard et al, 2001). Briefly, we observed a decrease with age in the time taken to perform the task and in the error length as well as in the time lag between the two hands.…”

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“…Bimanual coordination improves strongly during childhood (Elliott & Connolly, 1974;Fagard, Morioka, & Wolff, 1985;Wolff, Kotwica, & Obregon, 1998), especially when non-mirror movements must be coordinated (Fagard, 1987), and progress in the coordination of non-mirror movements is related to improvement in interhemispheric communication (Fagard, Hardy, Kervella, & Marks, 2001). Because bimanual coordination appears to vary with handedness in adults, and because both handedness and bimanual coordination improve as children get older, we hypothesized that we also would find an increasingly strong relationship between these two variables with age.…”

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Using a continuous index of laterality to determine how laterality is related to interhemispheric transfer and bimanual coordination in children

Fagard

Corroyer²

2003

Developmental Psychobiology

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We sought to determine whether laterality is related to interhemispheric transfer and bimanual coordination during development. Children between 3 and 8 years of age were observed. In the first part of the experiment, we devised a continuous index to order the subjects according to their laterality. The laterality index included evaluation of hand and eye preference, and the right-left performance difference. In the second part of the experiment, we used this single index to determine whether laterality is related to interhemispheric transfer and bimanual coordination. Interhemispheric transfer was assessed by means of two tactile transfer tasks and one visuo-manual transfer task. We assessed bimanual coordination using the tapping task and the bimanual crank-rotation task. Results showed that right- and left-hand writers overlap on certain measures of laterality. They confirmed the improvement of interhemispheric transfer at around age 5 years, earlier progress in bimanual coordination with mirror than with parallel movements, and the existence of a relationship between visuo-manual interhemispheric transfer and bimanual coordination. The laterality index was not related to interhemispheric transfer, but it was related to the younger subjects' performance on the bimanual crank-rotation task: the less right handed, the better the bimanual coordination. In addition, on the same bimanual task, crossed hand-eye laterality was associated with better performance.

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Using a continuous index of laterality to determine how laterality is related to interhemispheric transfer and bimanual coordination in children

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Corroyer²

2003

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…Temporal bimanual coupling improved with age, as evidenced by the accuracy and variability of the relative phase between the hands. Because improvements in temporal bimanual coordination as a function of development have been shown in previous studies (Fagard et al, 2001;Fitzpatrick et al, 1996;Muetzel et al, 2008;Wolff et al, 1998), we focused on unraveling these improvements in terms of three interlimb interactions governing bimanual stability: planning, correction, and reflex interactions. This is discussed in Section 4.1.…”

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“…Performance has been found to improve with age in children in bimanual tapping (Muetzel et al, 2008;Wolff et al, 1998), bimanual circle drawing (Robertson, 2001), bimanual reaction tasks (Fagard, Hardy-Leger, Kervella, & Marks, 2001), and clapping (Fitzpatrick, Schmidt, & Lockman, 1996). CC myelination was demonstrated to contribute positively to alternate tapping performance (Muetzel et al, 2008).…”

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Development of Temporal and Spatial Bimanual Coordination During Childhood

Boer¹,

Peper²,

Beek³

2012

Motor Control

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Developmental changes in bimanual coordination were examined in four age groups: 6/7, 10/11, 14/15 years, and young adults. Temporal coupling was assessed through the stabilizing contributions of interlimb interactions related to planning, error correction, and reflexes during rhythmic wrist movements, by comparing various unimanual and bimanual tasks involving passive and active movements. Spatial coupling was assessed via bimanual line-circle drawing. With increasing age, temporal stability improved. Relative contributions of planning and reflex interactions to the achieved stability did not change, whereas error correction improved. In-phase and antiphase coordination developed at similar rates; implications of this result were discussed in terms of mirror-activity inhibition. Overall spatial drawing performance (circularity, variability, smoothness) improved with age, and spatial interference was smaller in adults than children. Whereas temporal coupling increased from 6/7 years to adulthood, spatial coupling changed mainly after 14/15 years. This difference in the development of temporal and spatial coupling corresponds to the anterior-posterior direction of corpus callosum myelination as reported in the literature.

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“…In the context used here, that meant alternating opening and closing hands, alternating tapping finger/foot of one side with the other side, turning hands simultaneously with arms extended, and matching a rhythm with alternating feet tapping. Although basic characteristics of interlimb coordination are displayed by the end of the first year, it appears considerable improvement occurs from about age six to ten years [18][19][20][21] . In regard to the implications of the present study, our findings have local as well as possibly far-reaching implications.…”

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Limitations of the Neurological Evolutional Exam (ENE) as a motor assessment for first graders

Caçola¹,

Bobbio²,

Arias³

et al. 2010

Rev. bras. fisioter.

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Changes in Interhemispheric Transfer Rate and the Development of Bimanual Coordination during Childhood

Cited by 43 publications

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Using a continuous index of laterality to determine how laterality is related to interhemispheric transfer and bimanual coordination in children

Using a continuous index of laterality to determine how laterality is related to interhemispheric transfer and bimanual coordination in children

Development of Temporal and Spatial Bimanual Coordination During Childhood

Limitations of the Neurological Evolutional Exam (ENE) as a motor assessment for first graders

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