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KINAESTHETIC MOVEMENT AFTER‐EFFECTS IN CHILDREN WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME *
Author(s) -
ANWAR FERIHA,
HERMELIN BEATE
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1979.tb00863.x
Subject(s) - citation , unit (ring theory) , movement (music) , psychology , library science , sociology , psychoanalysis , art , mathematics education , computer science , aesthetics
In order to assess the liability of proprioceptive information, an experiment on kinaesthetic after-effects was carried out. Matched groups of severely subnormal and Down's syndrome subjects were compared with normal children of either the same chronological or the same mental age. No difference was found between the normal and the severely subnormal children, but the magnitude of the after-effect measures in Down's syndrome children suggests that asymmetrical pointing produced kinaesthetic after-effects which disrupted these subjects' total frame of spatial reference.