@article{ref1,
title="Closing-in behavior and motor distractibility in persons with brain injury",
journal="Archives of clinical neuropsychology",
year="2019",
author="Ambron, Elisabetta and Beschin, Nicoletta and Cerrone, Chiara and Della Sala, Sergio",
volume="34",
number="2",
pages="214-221",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: This study investigates closing-in behavior (CIB), a phenomenon observed in graphic copying tasks when responses encroach upon or overlap the model. The behavior is most common amongst individuals with dementia and amongst pre-school children. We explored the relationship between CIB and the 'distractor effect' in reaching, whereby salient visual stimuli can influence the spatial trajectory of the reach. <br><br>METHOD: A group of individuals with overlap-CIB (n = 9), without CIB (n = 9) and healthy controls (HC; n = 6) underwent a task-irrelevant and a task-relevant distractors and the deviation of the movement trajectory towards the distractor location was measured in both tasks. <br><br>RESULTS: Individuals with graphic CIB showed more distractor-directed veering during reaching than did individuals without CIB or HC, provided that the distractor was relevant for the reaching task. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These results strengthen the relationship between CIB and the distractor effect and reinforce the hypothesis that CIB represents a disinhibited tendency to act towards the focus of attention.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0887-6177",
doi="10.1093/arclin/acy033",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acy033"
}