Trial reportJournal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation2012
Dual-task motor performance with a tongue-operated assistive technology compared with hand operations.
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- Development and Evaluation of an Immersive Virtual Reality Application for Road Crossing Training in Older Adults.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Motor performance of tongue with a computer-integrated system under different levels of background physical exertion.Ergonomics · 2013Article
- A wireless magnetoresistive sensing system for an intraoral tongue-computer interface.IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems · 2012Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo provide an alternative motor modality for control, navigation, and communication in individuals suffering from impairment or disability in hand functions, a Tongue Drive System (TDS) has been developed that allows for real time tracking of tongue motion in an unobtrusive, wireless, and wearable device that utilizes the magnetic field generated by a miniature disk shaped magnetic tracer attached to the tip of the tongue. The purpose of the study was to compare the influence of a concurrent motor or cognitive task on various aspects of simple movement control between hand and tongue using the TDS technology.
methodsThirteen young able-bodied adults performed rapid and slow goal-directed movements of hand and tongue (with TDS) with and without a concurrent motor (hand or tongue) or cognitive (arithmetic and memory) task. Changes in reaction time, completion time, speed, correctness, accuracy, variability of displacement, and variability of time due to the addition of a concurrent task were compared between hand and tongue.
resultsThe influence of an additional concurrent task on motor performance was similar between the hand and tongue for slow movement in controlling their displacement. In rapid movement with a concurrent motor task, most aspects of motor performance were degraded in hand, while tongue speed during rapid continuous task was maintained. With a concurrent cognitive task, most aspects of motor performance were degraded in tongue, while hand accuracy during the rapid discrete task and hand speed during the rapid continuous task were maintained.
conclusionRapid goal-directed hand and tongue movements were more consistently susceptible to interference from concurrent motor and cognitive tasks, respectively, compared with the other movement.
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