Morphometric analysis of human mastication.
Motor activity studies usually involve analyzing behavior characteristics that are easily observed and scored. The advantage of these methods is that behavioral variation can be rapidly assayed. The disadvantage is that considerable behavioral information is lost. At the other extreme are descriptive kinematic studies that provide detailed quantification of behavior characteristics. The disadvantage of these descriptive studies has been the time-intensive nature of data acquisition and analysis. Recent technological advances provide means for scoring and analyzing many motor activity characteristics simultaneously without a significant increase in scoring and analysis time. The methods described in this paper provide an expeditious means of preserving the richness of motor activity for experimental and clinical neurobehavioral research purposes.
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Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1078, USA. geger@umich.edu
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D000328:Adult; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008409:Mastication / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D013996:Time and Motion Studies