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01-09-2004 | Research Article

Timing of bimanual movements and deafferentation: implications for the role of sensory movement effects

Authors: Knut Drewing, Prisca Stenneken, Jonathan Cole, Wolfgang Prinz, Gisa Aschersleben

Published in: Experimental Brain Research | Issue 1/2004

Abstract

In a repetitive tapping task, the within-hand variability of intertap intervals is reduced when participants tap with both hands instead of single-handedly. This bimanual advantage has been attributed to timer as opposed to motor variance (according to the Wing-Kristofferson model; Helmuth and Ivry 1996) and related to the additional sensory consequences of the movement of the extra hand in the bimanual case (Drewing et al. 2002). In the present study the effect of sensory feedback of the movement on this advantage was investigated by comparing the results of a person (IW) deafferented below the neck with those of age-matched controls. IW showed an even more pronounced bimanual advantage than controls, suggesting that the bimanual advantage is not due to actual sensory feedback. These results support another hypothesis, namely that bimanual timing profits from the averaging of different central control signals that relate to each effector’s movements.

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Title: Timing of bimanual movements and deafferentation: implications for the role of sensory movement effects
Authors: Knut Drewing
Prisca Stenneken
Jonathan Cole
Wolfgang Prinz
Gisa Aschersleben
Publication date: 01-09-2004
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Experimental Brain Research / Issue 1/2004
Print ISSN: 0014-4819
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-004-1870-9

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