Journal of Down Syndrome & Chromosome Abnormalities
Open Access
ISSN: 2472-1115
ISSN: 2472-1115
Heiko Wagner
Germany
Research Article
Perception of Biological Motion Speed in Individuals with Down Syndrome
Author(s): J Walter Tolentino-Castro, Hugh Riddell and Heiko Wagner J Walter Tolentino-Castro, Hugh Riddell and Heiko Wagner
The explanations for the motor learning deficits observed in individuals with Down Syndrome (DS) emphasize a complex interplay among the structural and functional body abnormalities of this population. To further comprehend how this pathological condition functions, researchers are now attempting to understand how visual and motor systems process information and how this processing correlates with the development of motor learning in individuals with DS. The purpose of the current study was to investigate whether individuals with DS are able to perceive and differentiate between visually presented sequences of biological motion that portrayed walking at different speeds. We tested 17 participants with DS and 17 typical develop individuals (CG) who were matched for age and gender on a task requiring subjects to make fine discriminations between biological motion stimuli in the form of .. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2472-1115.1000123