Wann, J.P., Mon-Williams, M. and Rushton, K. (1998) Postural control and co-ordination disorders: The swinging room revisited. Human Movement Science, 17 (4-5). pp. 491-513. ISSN 0167-9457
Abstract
The postural stability of different groups of children was examined using the “swinging-room” paradigm of Lee, D.N., Aronson, E., 1974. Perception and Psychophysics 15, 529–532. Nursery age children (3–4 years), children with co-ordination difficulties (DCD: 10–12 years), age-matched controls and adults were compared in their sway responses when they were presented with a moving visual world while standing upright on a static floor. Gain estimates for the vision-posture transfer function suggested that nursery children still depend upon vision as a major source of postural information, whereas this dependence is not evident in older control children. The children with DCD could be separated into two groups: (i) those who had postural control problems and demonstrated a bias to use visual information equivalent to the nursery children and (ii) those who passed a standard postural control assessment and did not differ from age-matched controls in the swinging room context.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | movement disorders; children; visual perception; balance |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) > Cognitive Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Repository Officer |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2009 13:54 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2015 17:29 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-9457(98)00011-6 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier Science B.V. |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/S0167-9457(98)00011-6 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:8703 |