McCormick, SA, Causer, J and Holmes, PS (2014) The influence of early aging on eye movements during motor simulation. AGE, 36 (4). p. 9671. ISSN 0161-9152

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Abstract

Movement based interventions such as imagery and action observation are used increasingly to support physical rehabilitation of adults during early aging. The efficacy of these more covert approaches is based on an intuitively appealing assumption that movement execution, imagery and observation share neural substrate; alteration of one influences directly the function of the other two. Using eye movement metrics this paper reports findings that question the congruency of the three conditions. The data reveal that simulating movement through imagery and action observation may offer older adults movement practice conditions that are not constrained by the age-related decline observed in physical conditions. In addition, the findings provide support for action observation as a more effective technique for movement reproduction in comparison to imagery. This concern for imagery was also seen in the less congruent temporal relationship in movement time between imagery and movement execution suggesting imagery inaccuracy in early aging.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11357-014-9671-y
Uncontrolled Keywords:	11 Medical And Health Sciences, 06 Biological Sciences, 17 Psychology And Cognitive Sciences
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine
Divisions:	Sport & Exercise Sciences
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
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Date Deposited:	06 May 2016 08:47
Last Modified:	17 May 2022 14:41
DOI or ID number:	10.1007/s11357-014-9671-y
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3567

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