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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Motor tasks"”.
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Worker profile: learning patterns for motor tasks
This research demonstrates the feasibility of modifying a Predetermined Time Standard (PTS) to model a specific worker precisely and efficiently. The Worker Profile uses the results of a half hour of testing to algebraically modify each of the work elements in the PTS. The modified system can then …
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EEG Characterization During Motor Tasks That Are Difficult for Movement Disorder Patients
… potentials in healthy subjects performing six tasks that are difficult for those with movement disorders. Using a 32-channel EEG cap with an amplifier sampling at 500 Hz, we performed our protocol on 11 college-aged volunteers lacking any known movement disorder. For each task, we analyzed …
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The Performance of Adolescent Boys on Selected Perceptual Motor Tasks Sampling Abilities Related to Manipulative Performance in Industrial Education
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The development of two novel interhemispheric transfer time tasks and application within a pilot paediatric moderate severe traumatic brain injury cohort
… two novel electroencephalogram (EEG) based IHTT tasks by investigating the reliability of the measured IHTTs and their feasibility for use in young children who had sustained a TBI. Methods: Two IHTT tasks were developed on MATLAB; a simple motor task and a non-motor task. Both tasks consisted of …
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Promoting enhanced motor planning in prosthesis users via matched limb imitation
… cortical systems active in amputees performing motor tasks may reveal atypical motor control strategies that contribute to these issues. Substantial evidence demonstrates a strong dependence on left parietofrontal cortical areas to successfully plan and execute tool-use movements and pantomimes. …
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Frequency Interception and Manipulation Vulnerabilities in Myoelectric-Computer Interface Signal Transmission
… interfaces (BCIs) assist patients with motor impairments due to injury or neurodegenerative conditions. Neural interface research has focused on device accuracy and usability while neglecting to comprehensively assess security risks. These devices store substantial personal data that can …
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The neuropsychology of autism and Asperger's disorder : evidence for or against a shared spectrum
… service. The utility of a standardized sensory-motor battery was investigated in regards to its ability (1) to determine what, if any, differences exist between ASD diagnoses or subgroups in both sensory functioning and motor functioning; and (2) to determine whether such discrepancies, if they …
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Effects of localised cooling and warming on neuromuscular control in young and older women
… control; 4) force fluctuation during a fine motor control task. Different responses to temperature were observed between the young and older groups. For example, cooling was found to reduce the isokinetic torque output when compared to the control condition in the young (average reduction …
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Models for the study of neuronal activity during cognitive tasks
… among different brain areas during cognitive or motor tasks is a crucial problem in neuroscience today. Aim of this research study is to use neural mass models to assess the effect of various connectivity patterns in cortical EEG power spectral density (PSD), and investigate the possibility to …
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Confidence intervals and measures of significant change for KINARM Standard Tests
… time between evaluations set at 1 week. The tasks are divided into 4 categories, motor tasks, motor-cognitive tasks, cognitive tasks, and one sensory task. The results of this thesis revealed confidence intervals smaller than the population interval in 99% of task parameters. Significant …
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Multifocal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Modulate Motor Learning
… brain regions, influencing processes such as motor learning. While tDCS has been previously shown to benefit motor skill acquisition, much of this research has focused on relatively simple, unimanual tasks. Conversely, the effects of tDCS on more complex, bimanual motor tasks remain …
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A neuropsychological investigation of verbal and nonverbal fluency: perspectives on asymmetries in frontal lobe functioning
… and limited search conditions. Verbal fluency tasks, such as the Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT), require production of words under specific constraints (i.e. words that begin with "F"), whereas nonverbal fluency tests, such as the Design Fluency Test (DFT), require generation of …
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The effects of consistency and inconsistency between attentional focus and task objective in learning a golf putting task
… their attention externally. However, many of the motor tasks utilized in past research had clear external objectives (i.e., putting accuracy), creating a compatible relationship between an external focus of attention (i.e., outcome) and an external task objective (i.e., putting accuracy). The …
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Constraint induced movement therapy with armeospring pediatric training for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy
… to increase motivation to complete repetitive tasks required to improve function. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of hand function of CIMT compared to CIMT with Armeo®Spring and the perceived experience of using the Armeo®Spring compared to fine motor tasks. …
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The effects of acute alcohol on motor impairments in adolescent, adult, and aged rats.
… exposure has been shown to produce differential motor impairments between younger and older rodents. However, the effects of acute alcohol exposure among adolescent, adult, and aged rats have yet to be systematically investigated within the same project using a dose-dependent analysis. We sought …
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Assessing neurophysiological and behavioural outcomes of the proximal upper limb muscles in response to novel motor skill acquisition
A single session of motor training with the distal upper limb muscles leads to changes in brain and spinal cord processing. However, the neuroplastic response of the proximal upper limb muscles to novel motor training has not been studied. The development of a proximal motor task which shows …
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Motor Network Organization in Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
… disorder that commonly coincides with functional motor deficits. While the source of these deficits is unknown, it is postulated that repeated seizure activity within the frontal lobe might impact the proximate motor network. To examine this hypothesis, motor networks were compared between …
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The Effects of Divided Attention on Speech Motor, Verbal Fluency and Manual Motor Task Performance
… the same letter), and right- and left-handed motor tasks (placing pegs and washers in a peg board) in isolation and in concurrent conditions. Speech kinematic data revealed that during concurrent performance of manual tasks, lip displacement and peak velocity decreased, while sound pressure …
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Visual Computing and AI Technologies to Analyse Movement Disorders Associated with Parkinson’s Disease for Diagnostic Purposes
… visual interpretations of characteristic motor signs like bradykinesia. This research investigates comprehensive video and signal processing techniques and their capacity to yield clinically meaningful representations of PD movement disorders. PD and healthy control participants were video …
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