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Van Halewyck, F, Lavrysen, A, Levin, O, Elliott, D and Helsen, WF (2015) The Impact of Age and Physical Activity Level on Manual Aiming Performance. JOURNAL OF AGING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, 23 (2). pp. 169-179. ISSN 1063-8652
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Abstract
Older adults traditionally adapt their discrete aiming movements, thereby travelling a larger proportion of the movement under closed-loop control. As the beneficial impact of a physically active lifestyle in old age has been described for several aspects of motor control, we compared the aiming performance of young controls to active and sedentary older adults. To additionally determine the contribution of visual feedback, aiming movements were executed with and without saccades. Results showed only sedentary older adults adopted the typical movement changes, highlighting the impact of a physically active lifestyle on manual aiming in old age. In an attempt to reveal the mechanism underlying the movement changes, evidence for an age-related decline in force control was found, which in turn resulted in an adapted aiming strategy. Finally, prohibiting saccades did not affect older adults’ performance to a greater extent, suggesting they do not rely more on visual feedback than young controls.
Keywords: aging, physical activity, manual aiming, eye movements
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | As accepted for publication |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1106 Human Movement And Sports Science |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine |
| Divisions: | Sport & Exercise Sciences |
| Publisher: | Human Kinetics |
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| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2015 12:39 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 14:16 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1123/japa.2013-0104 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/1484 |
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