TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Closing-in behavior and motor distractibility in persons with brain injury
JO  - Archives of clinical neuropsychology
A1  - Ambron, Elisabetta
A1  - Beschin, Nicoletta
A1  - Cerrone, Chiara
A1  - Della Sala, Sergio
SP  - 214
EP  - 221
VL  - 34
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0887-6177
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acy033
ID  - ref1
ER  -