Factors influencing children's performances of a steady-state bimanual coordination task.
Children ages 4, 6, and 8 years and adults performed self-selected, continuous, unimanual and bimanual coordination tasks for 30 s. The length of time performing the task was investigated as a potential control parameter As hypothesized, all groups spent less time in antiphase than in in-phase coordination as the trial continued. These results were interpreted as evidence that the length of time performing a task is a control parameter embedded in any task. The importance of studying control parameters in various developing systems is discussed.
Lantero
Dawn A
DA
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Ringenbach
Shannon D
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D013996:Time and Motion Studies; D055815:Young Adult