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Effects Of Age And Psychomotor Ability On Kinematics Of Mouse-Mediated Aiming Movement, Yuenkeen Cheong, Randa Shehab, Chen Ling
Effects Of Age And Psychomotor Ability On Kinematics Of Mouse-Mediated Aiming Movement, Yuenkeen Cheong, Randa Shehab, Chen Ling
Dr. Chen Ling
The objective of this research is to understand the influence of age and age-related psychomotor ability on the process of mouse-mediated aiming movement. It is premised on the notions that (1) mouse-mediated aiming movements can be better understood via studying its kinematics and (2) age is a surrogate variable in kinematic differences, and that age-influenced fundamental factors such as psychomotor ability may have a more direct effect. As expected, age kinematic differences were detected. However, when comparing with age, age-influenced psychomotor ability (i.e. manual dexterity) contributed more substantially to the variances of kinematics in the ballistic phase. For homing phase, …