Different pattern of hemisphere specialization between identical kinesthetic spatial and weight discrimination tasks

Nishizawa, Sho

doi:10.1016/0028-3932(91)90044-9

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“…Although tests on the typical left-side advantage yielded results generally consistent with previous findings for spatial motor tasks (Carnahan and Elliott, 1987;Nishizawa, 1991;Nishizawa and Saslow, 1987), these were inconsistent with predicted outcomes. The CE scores showed a typical left-side advantage in movements estimated at equal lengths as well as at other estimated lengths.…”

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Lateral Difference in the Reproduction of Arm Positioning Movement: An Examination of the Hypothesis on the Levels of Psychological Processes.

Yamauchi

Imanaka²,

Nakayama³

et al. 1998

Appl Human Sci

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Abstract. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the hypothesis on the levels of psychological processes (Hatta, 1977(Hatta, , 1978 accounts for lateral differences in arm positioning movement (a spatial localization task). Fifteen right-handed male subjects were asked to perform a constrained criterion movement, 12 cm in length, with the left or right arm. Then, after a 10-sec retention interval, they were asked to perform the movement with the same arm, estimating lengths of 6, 12 or 24 cm. Different levels of psychological processes were assumed to be involved in estimating these various movement lengths-half, the same, or double that of the original. All possible combinations of the arm (left/right) and three movement length were tested. The CE scores were lower (more accurate) for the left arm (half; 1.5 ± 8.1 mm, same; 4.3 ± 6.2 mm, double; 5.9 ± 20.3 mm) than those for the right arm (half; 5.9 ± 7.6 mm, same; 10.6 ± 10.6 mm, double; 11.8 ± 23.6 mm) in all conditions, indicating a lateral difference (the right hemisphere dominance) in arm positioning tasks. This typical lateral difference, which displayed no significant difference among conditions, is supposed to be mediated by complex or high-level psychological processes. These psychological processes are required by the subjects in the estimation of the various movement lengths. This study suggests that the level of psychological processes is a crucial factor in the manifestation of lateral differences in the performance of arm positioning movements.

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Lateral Difference in the Reproduction of Arm Positioning Movement: An Examination of the Hypothesis on the Levels of Psychological Processes.

Yamauchi

Imanaka²,

Nakayama³

et al. 1998

Appl Human Sci

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“…On the other hand, we found that right-side-dominant participants were more accurate in the target-matching task with the non-dominant leg than the left-side-dominant subjects. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that determined whether targetmatching was more accurate when using the non-dominant leg, just as it was shown in thumb (25,29), elbow (9,10,18), or in multiple joints of the upper limb (ankles, knees, shoulders, and fingers) (15) in right-handed individuals and in elbow (11) in left-handed individuals. In contrast to our hypothesis, we found no asymmetry in the knee joint targetmatching task in right-side-dominant participants.…”

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“…Activation of muscle, skin, and joint receptors allows sensing the orientation of body and body parts even in the absence of vision [for reviews, see (7,28)]. Right-handed participants perform proprioceptive targetmatching tasks more accurately when using the non-dominant left thumb (25,29), elbow (9,10,18), or multiple joints of the upper limb (ankle, knee, shoulder, and finger) (15) compared to left-handed participants performing the same task with the non-dominant right hand. One reason could be that kinesthesia is associated with a network of active brain areas (e.g., motor areas, cerebellum, and high-order somatosensory areas) in right-handed healthy participants, providing evidence for a right-hemisphere dominance for perception of limb movement (23).…”

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“…Most previous studies examined the effects of handedness on the proprioception of upper limb joints (9,10,15,18,25,29), so it is unclear if right-hemisphere specialization for proprioceptive target-matching tasks (8,23) is also evident in lower limb joints. The effects of footedness on leg proprioception have been poorly investigated, even though it might be a better indicator of brain lateralization (5), being less affected by external and societal factors than handedness (41).…”

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Effects of side-dominance on knee joint proprioceptive target-matching asymmetries

Galamb¹,

Szilágyi²,

Magyar³

et al. 2018

Acta Physiol Hung

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Aims Right- and left-side-dominant individuals reveal target-matching asymmetries between joints of the dominant and non-dominant upper limbs. However, it is unclear if such asymmetries are also present in lower limb’s joints. We hypothesized that right-side-dominant participants perform knee joint target-matching tasks more accurately with their non-dominant leg compared to left-side-dominant participants. Methods Participants performed position sense tasks using each leg by moving each limb separately and passively on an isokinetic dynamometer. Results Side-dominance affected (p < 0.05) knee joint absolute position errors only in the non-dominant leg but not in the dominant leg: right-side-dominant participants produced less absolute position errors (2.82° ± 0.72°) with the non-dominant leg compared to left-side-dominant young participants (3.54° ± 0.33°). Conclusions In conclusion, right-side-dominant participants tend to perform a target-matching task more accurately with the non-dominant leg compared to left-side-dominant participants. Our results extend the literature by showing that right-hemisphere specialization under proprioceptive target-matching tasks may be not evident at the lower limb joints.

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“…Nishizawa 1991; Goble et al 2006; Adamo and Martin 2009). The finding that movement discrimination ability of right-handed/right-footed individuals is significantly better at multiple joints—their non-dominant left fingers, shoulder, knee and ankle—both extends and is consistent with previous findings obtained from a single joint (Goble et al 2006; Goble and Brown 2009, 2010).…”

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Proprioceptive performance of bilateral upper and lower limb joints: side-general and site-specific effects

et al. 2013

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Superiority of the left upper limb in proprioception tasks performed by right-handed individuals has been attributed to better utilization of proprioceptive information by a non-preferred arm/hemisphere system. However, it is undetermined whether this holds for multiple upper and lower limb joints. Accordingly, the present study tested active movement proprioception at four pairs of upper and lower limb joints, after selecting twelve participants with both strong right arm and right leg preference. A battery of versions of the active movement extent discrimination apparatus were employed to generate the stimuli for movements of different extents at the ankle, knee, shoulder and fingers on the right and left sides of the body, and discrimination scores were derived from participants’ responses. Proprioceptive performance on the non-preferred left side was significantly better than the preferred right side at all four joints tested (overall F1, 11 = 36.36, p < 0.001, partial η2 = 0.77). In the 8 × 8 matrix formed by all joints, only correlations between the proprioceptive accuracy scores for the right and left sides at the same joint were significant (ankles 0.93, knees 0.89, shoulders 0.87, fingers 0.91, p ≤ 0.001; all others r ≤ 0.40, p ≥ 0.20). The results point to both a side-general effect and a site-specific effect in the integration of proprioceptive information during active movement tasks, whereby the non-preferred limb/hemisphere system is specialized in the utilization of the best proprioceptive sources available at each specific joint, but the combination of sources employed differs between body sites.

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Different pattern of hemisphere specialization between identical kinesthetic spatial and weight discrimination tasks

Cited by 19 publications

References 30 publications

Lateral Difference in the Reproduction of Arm Positioning Movement: An Examination of the Hypothesis on the Levels of Psychological Processes.

Lateral Difference in the Reproduction of Arm Positioning Movement: An Examination of the Hypothesis on the Levels of Psychological Processes.

Effects of side-dominance on knee joint proprioceptive target-matching asymmetries

Proprioceptive performance of bilateral upper and lower limb joints: side-general and site-specific effects

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