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The Impact of Limited Previous Motor Experience on Action Possibility Judgments in People with Spinal Muscle Atrophy
Previous studies have shown that people with limited motor capabilities may rely on previous motor experience when making action possibility judgments for others. In the present study, we examined if having limited previous motor experience, as a consequence of spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), alters ac...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10526987/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37759857 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13091256 |
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author | Heirani Moghaddam, Sarvenaz Sen, Dilara Carson, Megan Mackowiak, Robert Markley, Rachel Manson, Gerome Aleandro |
author_facet | Heirani Moghaddam, Sarvenaz Sen, Dilara Carson, Megan Mackowiak, Robert Markley, Rachel Manson, Gerome Aleandro |
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description | Previous studies have shown that people with limited motor capabilities may rely on previous motor experience when making action possibility judgments for others. In the present study, we examined if having limited previous motor experience, as a consequence of spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), alters action possibility judgments. Participants with SMA and neurologically healthy (NH) sex- and age-matched controls performed a perceptual-motor judgment task using the Fitts’s law paradigm. Participants observed apparent motion videos of reciprocal aiming movements with varying levels of difficulty. For each movement, participants predicted the shortest movement time (MT) at which a neurologically healthy young adult could accurately perform the task. Participants with SMA predicted significantly longer MTs compared to controls; however, the predicted MTs of both SMA and NH participants exhibited a Fitts’s law relationship (i.e., the predicted MTs significantly increased as movement difficulty increased). Overall, these results provide evidence that participants with SMA who have limited, or no motor experience may make more conservative action possibility judgments for others. Critically, our finding that the pattern of action possibility judgments was not different between SMA and NH groups suggests that limited previous motor experience may not completely impair action possibility judgments. |
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spelling | pubmed-105269872023-09-28 The Impact of Limited Previous Motor Experience on Action Possibility Judgments in People with Spinal Muscle Atrophy Heirani Moghaddam, Sarvenaz Sen, Dilara Carson, Megan Mackowiak, Robert Markley, Rachel Manson, Gerome Aleandro Brain Sci Article Previous studies have shown that people with limited motor capabilities may rely on previous motor experience when making action possibility judgments for others. In the present study, we examined if having limited previous motor experience, as a consequence of spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), alters action possibility judgments. Participants with SMA and neurologically healthy (NH) sex- and age-matched controls performed a perceptual-motor judgment task using the Fitts’s law paradigm. Participants observed apparent motion videos of reciprocal aiming movements with varying levels of difficulty. For each movement, participants predicted the shortest movement time (MT) at which a neurologically healthy young adult could accurately perform the task. Participants with SMA predicted significantly longer MTs compared to controls; however, the predicted MTs of both SMA and NH participants exhibited a Fitts’s law relationship (i.e., the predicted MTs significantly increased as movement difficulty increased). Overall, these results provide evidence that participants with SMA who have limited, or no motor experience may make more conservative action possibility judgments for others. Critically, our finding that the pattern of action possibility judgments was not different between SMA and NH groups suggests that limited previous motor experience may not completely impair action possibility judgments. MDPI 2023-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10526987/ /pubmed/37759857 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13091256 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Heirani Moghaddam, Sarvenaz Sen, Dilara Carson, Megan Mackowiak, Robert Markley, Rachel Manson, Gerome Aleandro The Impact of Limited Previous Motor Experience on Action Possibility Judgments in People with Spinal Muscle Atrophy |
title | The Impact of Limited Previous Motor Experience on Action Possibility Judgments in People with Spinal Muscle Atrophy |
title_full | The Impact of Limited Previous Motor Experience on Action Possibility Judgments in People with Spinal Muscle Atrophy |
title_fullStr | The Impact of Limited Previous Motor Experience on Action Possibility Judgments in People with Spinal Muscle Atrophy |
title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of Limited Previous Motor Experience on Action Possibility Judgments in People with Spinal Muscle Atrophy |
title_short | The Impact of Limited Previous Motor Experience on Action Possibility Judgments in People with Spinal Muscle Atrophy |
title_sort | impact of limited previous motor experience on action possibility judgments in people with spinal muscle atrophy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10526987/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37759857 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13091256 |
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