ArticleExperimental brain research2019
Proprioceptive deficits in inactive older adults are not reflected in fast targeted reaching movements.
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- Adults up to 80 years old maintain effective movement planning when facing complex body dynamics.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Behavioral and psychophysical characterization of proprioceptive impairment in healthy aging: a hyper-illusory experience of movement.npj aging · 2026Article
- Paying attention to proprioception: age affects ankle proprioception and the attentional demand of proprioceptive processing in sedentary adults.GeroScience · 2025Article
- Limited Evidence to Review-Is There an Association Between Cognition and Upper Extremity Motor Reaction Time in Older Adults?NeuroSci · 2025Review
- Investigating age-related decline in sensorimotor control using robotic tasks.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Slowing of Movements in Healthy Aging as a Rational Economic Response to an Elevated Effort Landscape.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Proprioceptive short-term memory in passive motor learning.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Adaptation of reach action to a novel force-field is not predicted by acuity of dynamic proprioception in either older or younger adults.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Imaging Analysis of Prosthesis Angle after Hip Replacement with Direct Anterior Approach in Lateral Position.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2021Article
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- The multiple process model of goal-directed aiming/reaching: insights on limb control from various special populations.Experimental brain research · 2020Review
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Abstract
During normal healthy ageing there is a decline in the ability to control simple movements, characterised by increased reaction times, movement durations and variability. There is also growing evidence of age-related proprioceptive loss which may contribute to these impairments. However, this relationship has not been studied in detail for the upper limb. We recruited 20 younger adults (YAs) and 31 older adults (OAs) who each performed 2 tasks on a 2D robotic manipulandum. The first assessed dynamic proprioceptive acuity using active, multi-joint movements constrained by the robot to a pre-defined path. Participants made perceptual judgements of the lateral position of the unseen arm. The second task required fast, accurate and discrete movements to the same targets in the absence of visual feedback of the hand, and without robotic intervention. We predicted that the variable proprioceptive error (uncertainty range) assessed in Task 1 would be increased in physically inactive OAs and would predict increased movement variability in Task 2. Instead we found that physically inactive OAs had larger systematic proprioceptive errors (bias) than YAs (t[33] = 2.8, p = 0.009), and neither proprioceptive uncertainty nor bias was related to motor performance in either age group (all regression model R
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