Université de Fribourg

Age-related changes in the bimanual advantage and in brain oscillatory activity during tapping movements suggest a decline in processing sensory reafference

Sallard, Etienne ; Spierer, Lucas ; Ludwig, Catherine ; Deiber, Marie Pierre ; Barral, Jérôme

In: Experimental Brain Research, 2014, vol. 232, no. 2, p. 469–479

Deficits in the processing of sensory reafferences have been suggested as accounting for age-related decline in motor coordination. Whether sensory reafferences are accurately processed can be assessed based on the bimanual advantage in tapping: because of tapping with an additional hand increases kinesthetic reafferences, bimanual tapping is characterized by a reduced inter-tap interval...