Neuropsychological study on the interaction between voluntary body movement and its visual information
Description: First, we showed for the first time experimentally that finger writing movements improves performance on a cognitive task in elderly people. In addition, we found that the facilitative effect of Kusho was not correlated with age and MMSE scores, while there was a strong negative correlation with education years. Second, we showed for the first time that the facilitative effect of Kusho exists in sensory aphasia patients with reduced language ability due to stroke. This result suggests that the facilitative effect of Kusho is not relevant with “reading” process (phonological aspect) but with recall of the shape of characters (visual aspect). In addition, we showed that the visuomotor correspondence relating automatic motor responses can be drastically altered by a short period of adaptation.
Amount: ¥4,160,000
Funding type: fellowship
Funder scheme: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
Start date: 2018-04-01
End date: 2020-03-31
Investigator: Yoshihiro Itaguchi
Institution: Shizuoka University
Funded outputs count: 3
Funder award ID: 18K13372
OpenAlex ID: G7948412643