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Navigating through apertures: perceptual judgements and actions of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder
- Source :
- Developmental Science
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2016.
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Abstract
- Passing through a narrow gap/aperture involves a perceptual judgement regarding the size of the gap and an action to pass through. Children with DCD are known to have difficulties with perceptual judgements in near space but whether this extends to far space is unknown. Furthermore, in a recent study it was found that adults with DCD do not scale movements when walking through an aperture in the same way as their peers. The current study, therefore, considered perceptual judgements and motor behaviour of children with DCD while looking at or walking through apertures. Twenty‐nine children with DCD and 29 typically developing (TD) children took part. In Experiment 1, participants completed a perceptual task, where they made passability judgements. Children with DCD showed a significantly smaller critical ratio (aperture size at which a participant first rotates the shoulders to pass through) compared to their TD peers. In Experiment 2, participants completed an action task where they walked through the same apertures. Children with DCD showed a significantly larger critical ratio than TD peers when body size alone was accounted for. Taken together these results suggest that perception within a static context is different from that within a dynamic context for children with DCD. However, despite this difference we have demonstrated a clear relationship between perception and action in children with DCD. A video abstract of this article can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/SABXFrAJtF8
- Subjects :
- Paper
Male
Adolescent
Shoulders
Cognitive Neuroscience
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Movement
Adaptation (eye)
Context (language use)
050105 experimental psychology
Task (project management)
Developmental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Judgment
0302 clinical medicine
Child Development
Perception
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Child
media_common
Analysis of Variance
05 social sciences
Child development
Adaptation, Physiological
Motor Skills Disorders
Action (philosophy)
Case-Control Studies
Space Perception
Papers
Narrow gap
Female
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Photic Stimulation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14677687 and 1363755X
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Developmental Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d1a33a871d467153d0ed75641064d1ba