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Movement Perception and Movement Production in Asperger's Syndrome
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Price, Kelly J.; Shiffrar, Maggie; Kerns, Kimberly A. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
To determine whether motor difficulties documented in Asperger's Syndrome (AS) are related to compromised visual abilities, this study examined perception and movement in response to dynamic visual environments. Fourteen males with AS and 16 controls aged 7-23 completed measures of motor skills, postural response to optic flow, and visual…
Descriptors: Optics, Motion, Motor Development, Asperger Syndrome
Predictability Influences Stopping and Response Control
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Morein-Zamir, Sharon; Chua, Romeo; Franks, Ian; Nagelkerke, Paul; Kingstone, Alan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Using a continuous tracking task, the authors examined whether stopping is resistant to expectancies as well as whether it is a representative measure of response control. Participants controlled the speed of a moving marker by continuously adjusting their response force. Participants stopped their ongoing tracking in response to auditory signals…
Descriptors: Sensory Experience, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Attention Control
Effect of Self-Produced Locomotion on Infant Postural Compensation to Optic Flow.
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Higgins, Carol I.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Compared the postural responsiveness of seven-, eight-, and nine-month-old infants. Results indicated greater use of optic flow for postural control after a self-produced locomotor experience. Infants with endogenous (creeping) or artificial (walker) self-produced locomotor experience responded to portions of the optic flow field, whereas…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Human Posture, Infant Behavior
Perceptual-Motor Deficits in Children with Down Syndrome: Implications for Intervention
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Virji-Babul, Naznin; Kerns, Kimberly; Zhou, Eric; Kapur, Asha; Shiffrar, Maggie – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2006
Early intervention approaches for facilitating motor development in infants and children with Down syndrome have traditionally emphasised the acquisition of motor milestones. As increasing evidence suggests that motor milestones have limited predictive power for long-term motor outcomes, researchers have shifted their focus to understanding the…
Descriptors: Cues, Early Intervention, Down Syndrome, Motor Development
Human Movement as a Function of Color Stimulation.
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Srivastava, Rajendra K.; Peel, Thomas S. – 1968
A research study and the intent and purpose of its experiments are outlined to support the premise that "a change in the color of an environment will bring a change in the pattern of human movement within that environment". Experiment cited is concerned with the color variables of light beige and dark brown in a controlled environment with museum…
Descriptors: Color, Cybernetics, Design Requirements, Environmental Influences
Teaching Phonetic Skills through Body Movement.
Van Osdol, Bob M.; Geiger, Leonard J. – 1975
A perceptual motor approach to learning phonics is presented in this teaching guide which includes a screening test and 50 learning games encompassing a wide array of phonics skills. Directionality, gross-motor skills, sensory-motor skills, and auditory and visual perceptual skills may be introduced to the children and taught during the games…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Educational Games, Elementary Education