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Short-term retention of proprioceptive information
The Joint Position Reproduction test (JPR), one of the most widely used measurements to estimate proprioceptive accuracy, requires the short term storage of proprioceptive information. It has been suggested that visuospatial sketchpad plays a fundamental role in the memorization of proprioceptive in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7672777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32972307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021820957147 |
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author | Horváth, Áron Ragó, Anett Ferentzi, Eszter Körmendi, János Köteles, Ferenc |
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description | The Joint Position Reproduction test (JPR), one of the most widely used measurements to estimate proprioceptive accuracy, requires the short term storage of proprioceptive information. It has been suggested that visuospatial sketchpad plays a fundamental role in the memorization of proprioceptive information. The current study aimed to investigate this assumption. To do so, we developed and used a novel JPR protocol to measure the retention capacity with respect to sequences of different positions. Our goal was to develop the original task further to make it comparable with other widely used short-term memory measurements, in which the memory capacity was determined by the number of the items participants retain (memory span). We compared participants’ (N=39) performance in this task to that of results of Corsi block-tapping task (capacity of the visuospatial sketchpad) and Digit span task (capacity of the phonological loop). Proprioceptive memory capacity did not correlate either with spatial or verbal memory capacity. The exploratory analysis revealed that proprioceptive span correlated positively with the performance if 5 joint positions had to be retained. Further associations with verbal span for 6 or 7 positions, and spatial span for 5 positions were found. Our findings do not support the idea that visuospatial sketchpad plays a fundamental role in the storage of proprioceptive information. The independence of span measures indicates that proprioceptive information might be stored in a subsystem independent of the visuospatial sketchpad or phonological loop. |
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spelling | pubmed-76727772020-12-03 Short-term retention of proprioceptive information Horváth, Áron Ragó, Anett Ferentzi, Eszter Körmendi, János Köteles, Ferenc Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) Original Articles The Joint Position Reproduction test (JPR), one of the most widely used measurements to estimate proprioceptive accuracy, requires the short term storage of proprioceptive information. It has been suggested that visuospatial sketchpad plays a fundamental role in the memorization of proprioceptive information. The current study aimed to investigate this assumption. To do so, we developed and used a novel JPR protocol to measure the retention capacity with respect to sequences of different positions. Our goal was to develop the original task further to make it comparable with other widely used short-term memory measurements, in which the memory capacity was determined by the number of the items participants retain (memory span). We compared participants’ (N=39) performance in this task to that of results of Corsi block-tapping task (capacity of the visuospatial sketchpad) and Digit span task (capacity of the phonological loop). Proprioceptive memory capacity did not correlate either with spatial or verbal memory capacity. The exploratory analysis revealed that proprioceptive span correlated positively with the performance if 5 joint positions had to be retained. Further associations with verbal span for 6 or 7 positions, and spatial span for 5 positions were found. Our findings do not support the idea that visuospatial sketchpad plays a fundamental role in the storage of proprioceptive information. The independence of span measures indicates that proprioceptive information might be stored in a subsystem independent of the visuospatial sketchpad or phonological loop. SAGE Publications 2020-09-24 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7672777/ /pubmed/32972307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021820957147 Text en © Experimental Psychology Society 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Horváth, Áron Ragó, Anett Ferentzi, Eszter Körmendi, János Köteles, Ferenc Short-term retention of proprioceptive information |
title | Short-term retention of proprioceptive information |
title_full | Short-term retention of proprioceptive information |
title_fullStr | Short-term retention of proprioceptive information |
title_full_unstemmed | Short-term retention of proprioceptive information |
title_short | Short-term retention of proprioceptive information |
title_sort | short-term retention of proprioceptive information |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7672777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32972307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747021820957147 |
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