Coupling and lateralization in bimanual coordination at 7, 8, and 9 years of age

Fagard, Jacqueline; Pezé, Anna

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“…Normal adults with an intact corpus callosum, by contrast, have no difficulty learning the same bimanual tasks (Jeeves, 1986;Preilowski, 1972;Teng & Sperry, 1974). Similarly, the importance of afunctionally mature corpus callosum is illustrated, for example, in normative developmental studies which indicate that normal 7-8-year-old children also encounter great d culties learning bilaterally asynchronous and asymmetric tasks, whereas normal 10-1 1 -year-old children perform such tasks almost as well as normal adults (Fagard et al, 1985;Fagard & Peze, 1992;Jeeves et al, 1988).…”

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The development of interlimb coordination during bimanual finger tapping

Wolff

Kotwica

Obregón

1998

International Journal of Neuroscience

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Normal subjects aged 7-25 years were asked to tap the index fingers of both hands: a) in four different patterns of interlimb coordination; b) at two different response frequencies; and c) both before and after the entraining metronome was turned off. The outcome variables of primary interest were the within-subject variability of interresponse intervals (IRI) as an index of timing precision; and deviations from prescribed response frequency, as an index of temporal tracking accuracy. Stability of timing precision and accuracy of temporal tracking increased significantly from 7 to 9 and from 9 to 11 years, with only minor advances thereafter. There were significant right-left performance asymmetries in all bimanual tasks; variability of IRI and deviations from prescribed rate were greater at the faster of the two response frequencies tested; and stability of IRI and accuracy of temporal tracking were greater with than without the metronome. Stability of IRI and accuracy of temporal tracking were strongly correlated in some bimanual tasks. The findings are discussed in terms of the two major theoretical perspectives on human brain-behavior relationships that have specifically addressed the issue of bimanual coordination.

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The development of interlimb coordination during bimanual finger tapping

Wolff

Kotwica

Obregón

1998

International Journal of Neuroscience

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“…There are some grounds for thinking that bimanual coordination varies with handedness, even though little is known about this relationship because left-handers are usually excluded from the studies. Most bimanual studies which include lefthanders focus on the handedness-driven dynamics of bimanual coordination, where the preferred hand is leading (Amazeen, Amazeen, Treffner, & Turvey, 1997;Fagard & Pezé, 1992;Stucchi & Viviani, 1993;Swinnen, Jardin, & Meulenbroek, 1996;Treffner & Turvey, 1995, 1996Wuyts, Summers, Carson, Byblow, & Semjen, 1996) rather than on bimanual performance as a function of handedness. If mixed-and left-handers have greater interhemispheric integration than righthanders, then performance on a bimanual task should vary with handedness, at least on tasks for which the role of interhemispheric transfer has been demonstrated (Geffen, Jones, & Geffen, 1994;Jeeves, Silver, & Milne, 1988;Pelletier et al, 1993;Preilowski, 1972Preilowski, , 1977Preilowski, , 1990Zaidel & Sperry, 1977).…”

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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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“…One of the first studies on drawing tasks in children showed that using both hands simultaneously led to errors in performing specific movements like copying parallel oblique lines (Abercrombie, Lindon, & Tyson, 1968). After this observation, different developmental studies focused on the difference between mirror (i.e., each hand moves toward an opposite “mirrored” direction, for instance one hand toward the left and the other toward the right in respect to the body midline) and parallel (i.e., each hand moves toward the same direction, for instance both hands toward the left) bimanual movements showing that drawing accuracy is higher in mirror versus parallel movements in 7-year-old children but that these differences decrease significantly in 8- to 10-year-old children (Fagard, 1987; Fagard, Hardy, Kervella, & Marks, 2001; Fagard & Pezé, 1992; Hauert & Steffen, 1987); furthermore, developmental advancements with mirror movements are earlier obtained than advancements with parallel bimanual movements during childhood (Fagard & Corroyer, 2003). Indeed, mirror movements are most prominent in young children (Utley & Steenbergen, 2006) but tend to disappear during the first decade of life (Lazarus & Todor, 1987).…”

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Executed and imagined bimanual movements: A study across different ages.

Piedimonte

Garbarini

Rabuffetti

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Developmental Psychology

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Movements with both hands are essential to our everyday life, and it has been shown that performing asymmetric bimanual movements produces an interference effect between hands. There have been many studies--using varying methods--investigating the development of bimanual movements that show that this skill continues to evolve during childhood and adolescence. In the current study we used a spatial bimanual task to delineate the development of bimanual movements not only during different stages of childhood but also during late stages of adulthood. Furthermore, we used the same task as a window to observe the involvement of motor imagery through the same age groups. For this study we recruited participants from 4 different age groups and asked them to perform congruent and noncongruent bimanual movements in a Real condition, where participants moved both hands, and in an Imagery condition, where they had to imagine 1 hand's movements while actually using the other hand. Our results showed that, with actual movement execution, the interference between motor programs of the 2 hands is higher in children (6-10 years old) than in younger adults (20-30 years old), while it tends to increase again in the elderly adults (60-80 years old). Interestingly, in the Imagery condition, the interference was present only among 10-year-old and 20- to 30-year-old participants, suggesting that motor imagery, not yet developed in young children and compromised by age in the elderly subjects, did not modulate motor performance in these last 2 groups.

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Coupling and lateralization in bimanual coordination at 7, 8, and 9 years of age

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

The development of interlimb coordination during bimanual finger tapping

The development of interlimb coordination during bimanual finger tapping

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

Executed and imagined bimanual movements: A study across different ages.

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