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Bimanual-Vertical Hand Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2011

Jay C. Kwon ,
Matthew L. Cohen ,
John Williamson ,
Brandon Burtis  and
Kenneth M. Heilman
Jay C. Kwon
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Changwon Fatima Hospital, Changwon, Republic of Korea Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Matthew L. Cohen*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida
John Williamson
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida
Brandon Burtis
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida
Kenneth M. Heilman
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to: Matthew L. Cohen, P.O. Box 100165, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610. E-mail: mlcohen@phhp.ufl.edu
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Abstract

Patients often demonstrate attentional and action-intentional biases in both the transverse and coronal planes. In addition, when making forelimb movements in the transverse plane, normal participants also have spatial and magnitude asymmetries, but forelimb spatial asymmetries have not been studied in coronal space. Thus, to learn if when normal people make vertical movements they have right–left spatial and magnitude biases, seventeen healthy, blindfolded volunteers had their hands (holding pens) placed vertically in their midsagittal plane, 10 inches apart, on pieces of paper positioned above, below, and at eye-level. Participants were asked to move their hands together vertically and meet in the middle. Participants demonstrated less angular deviation in the below-eye condition than in the other spatial conditions, when moving down than up, and with their right than left hand. Movements toward eye level from upper or lower space were also more accurate than movements in the other directions. Independent of hand, lines were longer with downward than upward movements and the right hand moved more distance than the left. These attentional-intentional asymmetries may be related to gravitational force, hand-hemispheric dominance, and spatial “where” asymmetries; however, the mechanisms accounting for these asymmetries must be ascertained by future research. (JINS, 2011, 17, 732–739)

Keywords

IntentionAttentionHand asymmetryCoronal planeHemispheric specializationMotor control
Type
Research Articles
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , 21 June 2011 , pp. 732 - 739
Copyright
Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 2011

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