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BIO Web of Conferences
Volume 1, 2011
The International Conference SKILLS 2011
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| Article Number | 00099 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20110100099 | |
| Published online | 15 December 2011 | |
Handwriting Skills: Attention Co-varies with Graphic Pattern Stability
Université de Toulouse, UPS, PRISSMH, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
E-mail: zanone@cict.fr, kostrubi@cict.fr
Attentional cost of graphic patterns generation was investigated using the classic dual-task procedure, in which a concurrent reaction time (RT) task was used as an index of the attentional cost incurred by the motor task. Participants had to trace graphic patterns characterized by 0°, 45°, 90°, 135° and 180° relative phase, while responding by a keypress as fast as possible to an auditory signal. The results evidenced a strong and significant correlation between the stability of the produced pattern and the associated attentional cost measures. The size of minor and major axes of the ellipsoids, capturing the amplitude of graphic patterns, decreased as movement frequency increased, as expected by nonlinear models of pattern generation. In cursive writing, this decrease in amplitude with increasing movement frequency is at origin of most frequent letter malformation.
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