Home // International Journal On Advances in Life Sciences, volume 9, numbers 1 and 2, 2017 // View article
Authors:
Kyota Aoki
Hisanori Hotta
Keywords: aging; development; aging process; motor control function; measurement; evaluation
Abstract:
In advanced countries, populations are getting older. Cognitive disorder is a large problem in the countries. To understand the cognitive disorder with aging, we need to have a whole image of the development and the aging of our cognitive functions. We need to measure the performance of brain functions with the process of development and aging. For synchronizing with other motion, we need to feel the other motion, to recognize, to memorize, and to generate the synchronizing motion. We need many kinds of brain functions to make synchronizing movement. The authors proposed the cooperative visual synchronization task, its measuring method, implementation and experiments to measure and evaluate the performance of motor control function. The new task and the measuring method enable to measure the precise movements and evaluate the performance of motor control function easily in a short period. The proposed method is safe, because there is no need to attach the device to a subject nor to make exaggerated motions. This paper presents the results of experiments about primary school pupil, high-school students, young students, manhood people and elderly people. In addition, the authors show the overview of development and aging process of motor control function from objective measurement of cooperative movement in both hands.
Pages: 50 to 64
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2017. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2017
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2660