Estimated community,
I am planning to do a behavioural experiment recording fNIRS and muscular activity during (bi)manual motor tasks. These tasks are to be planned in three degrees of complexity, from single finger tapping to knotting or another similar fine control task.
Since there might be participants with different degrees of experience with such tasks (e.g. some participants may have years of experience playing guitar or knitting, other none experience) and degree of experience is related to different brain activities I would like to control for this using a self-reported questionnaire before the tasks begin.
Do you know of such a self-reported questionnaire in fine motor skills for all ages (18-50 specifically)?
Everything I have found is related to the evaluation of the development of these skills in babies and children.
Thank you very much!
Dear Pablo,
Maybe the following paper will help you:
Hoogendam YY, van der Lijn F, Vernooij MW, Hofman A, Niessen WJ, van der Lugt A, Ikram MA, van der Geest JN. Older age relates to worsening of fine motor skills: a population-based study of middle-aged and elderly persons. Front Aging Neurosci 2014;6:259. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4174769/pdf/fnagi-06-00259.pdf
Best wishes from Germany,
Martin
Many thanks, Martin! It is very interesting and simple, so I would definitely include the spiral drawing as an objective measure before the experiment starts. However, I was looking for something more related to a self-reported questionnaire where people would estimate how skilled they are in fine motor control depending on their daily activities.
I might need to design my own.
Saludos, es posible que en estudios relacionados con el tacto fino en futbolistas u otros deportes usted puedas encontrar información.
Gracias.
Gracias por la recomendación. No obstante, en esa línea de investigación ya hay varios autores que están trabajando actualmente, como Antonio Manuel Solana que se centra sobre todo en el ámbito del fútbol.
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