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Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience Année : 2017

Strategic Variations in Fitts’ Task: Comparison of Healthy Older Adults and Cognitively Impaired Patients

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The present study aimed at investigating how healthy older adults (HOA) and cognitively impaired patients (CIP) differ in a discrete Fitts’ aiming task. Four levels of task difficulty were used, resulting from the simultaneous manipulation of the size of the target and its distance from home position. We found that movement times (MTs) followed Fitts’ law in both HOA and CIP, with the latter being significantly slower and more affected by increased task difficulty. Moreover, correlation analyses suggest that lower information processing speed (IPS) and deficits in executive functions (EFs) are associated with decline of sensorimotor performance in Fitts’ task. Analyses of strategic variations showed that HOA and CIP differed in strategy repertoire (which strategies they used), strategy distribution (i.e., how often they used each available strategy), and strategy execution (i.e., how quick they were with each available strategy). These findings further our understanding of how strategic variations used in a sensorimotor task are affected by cognitive impairment in older adults.
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hal-04502730 , version 1 (13-03-2024)

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Céline Poletti, Rita Sleimen-Malkoun, Leslie Marion Decker, Frédérique Retornaz, Patrick Lemaire, et al.. Strategic Variations in Fitts’ Task: Comparison of Healthy Older Adults and Cognitively Impaired Patients. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2017, 8, pp.334. ⟨10.3389/fnagi.2016.00334⟩. ⟨hal-04502730⟩
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