title: Effect of educational kinesiology upon simple response times and choice response times.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine whether Educational Kinesiology integration movements or repatterning in conjunction with the integration movements affect the response times of college students to a visual stimulus. Ten men and ten women were randomly assigned to each of the three conditions: control, Edu-K movement, or repatterned Edu-K movements. Each subject was pretested on simple and choice response-time tasks. Following the pretest, subjects in the control group sat quietly for 10 minutes. The movement group utilized seven Brain Gym activities. Subjects in the repatterned group experienced Dennison's Laterality Repatterning prior to doing the same Brain Gym activities. All subjects were then retested to assess changes in performance using 30 trials of each task. Statistical analyses indicated significant differences in improvement between the groups on the 4-choice task, with the repatterned group showing greater change than the Edu-K movement-only group, who in turn showed greater improvement than the control group. The groups improved by 6%, 3 1/2%, and 1%, respectively. No group differences were significant on the simple task, although a similar trend was indicated. Men responded faster than women on both tasks; however, the amount of improvement was similar for both.
authors.affiliation: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 91768.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sifft
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Khalsa
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D002755:Choice Behavior; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007698:Kinesis; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time