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: Received: 16 September 2024 / Approved: 17 September 2024 / Online: 17 September 2024 (08:43:32 CEST)
How to cite:
van Mastrigt, N. M.; Smeets, J. B.; van Leeuwen, A. M.; van Wijk, B. C.; van der Kooij, K. A Circle-Drawing Task for Studying Reward-Based Motor Learning in Children and Adults. Preprints2024, 2024091278. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1278.v1
van Mastrigt, N. M.; Smeets, J. B.; van Leeuwen, A. M.; van Wijk, B. C.; van der Kooij, K. A Circle-Drawing Task for Studying Reward-Based Motor Learning in Children and Adults. Preprints 2024, 2024091278. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1278.v1
van Mastrigt, N. M.; Smeets, J. B.; van Leeuwen, A. M.; van Wijk, B. C.; van der Kooij, K. A Circle-Drawing Task for Studying Reward-Based Motor Learning in Children and Adults. Preprints2024, 2024091278. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1278.v1
APA Style
van Mastrigt, N. M., Smeets, J. B., van Leeuwen, A. M., van Wijk, B. C., & van der Kooij, K. (2024). A Circle-Drawing Task for Studying Reward-Based Motor Learning in Children and Adults. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1278.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
van Mastrigt, N. M., Bernadette C.M. van Wijk and Katinka van der Kooij. 2024 "A Circle-Drawing Task for Studying Reward-Based Motor Learning in Children and Adults" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.1278.v1
Abstract
Childhood is an obvious period for motor learning since children’s musculoskeletal and nervous systems are still in development. Adults adapt movements based on reward feedback about success and failure but it is less established whether school-age children also exhibit such reward-based motor learning. We designed a new ‘circle-drawing’ task suitable for assessing reward-based motor learning in both children and adults. Participants drew circles with their unseen hand on a tablet. They received binary reward feedback after each attempt based on the proximity of the average radius of their drawing to a target radius set as double the radius of their baseline drawings. We rewarded about 50% of the trials based on a performance-dependent reward criterion. Both children (7-17 years old) and adults increased the radius of their drawings in the direction of the target radius. We observed no difference in learning between children and adults. Moreover, both groups changed the radius less following reward than following reward absence, which is a sign of reward-based motor learning. We conclude that school-age children, like adults, exhibit reward-based motor learning.
Keywords
motor learning; adaptation; reward; development
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Behavioral Sciences
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