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Evidence for associations between Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test and motor skill learning in older adults

View ORCID ProfileJennapher Lingo VanGilder, View ORCID ProfileKeith R. Lohse, View ORCID ProfileKevin Duff, View ORCID ProfilePeiyuan Wang, View ORCID ProfileSydney Y. Schaefer
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.27.315168
Jennapher Lingo VanGilder
1School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
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Keith R. Lohse
2Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, University of Utah
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Kevin Duff
3Center for Alzheimer’s Care, Imaging and Research, University of Utah Health Sciences Center
4Department of Neurology, University of Utah Hospital
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Peiyuan Wang
1School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
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Sydney Y. Schaefer
1School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
2Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, University of Utah
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Age-related declines in motor learning may be related to poor visuospatial function. Thus, visuospatial testing could evaluate older adults’ potential for motor learning, which has implications for geriatric motor rehabilitation. To this end, the purpose of this study was to identify which visuospatial test is most predictive of motor learning within older adults. Forty-five nondemented older adults completed six standardized visuospatial tests, followed by three weekly practice sessions on a functional upper-extremity motor task. Participants were re-tested one month later on the trained task and another untrained upper-extremity motor task to evaluate the durability and generalizability of motor learning, respectively. Principal component analysis first reduced the dimensions of the visuospatial battery to two principal components for inclusion in a mixed-effects model that assessed one-month follow-up performance as a function of baseline performance and the principal components. Of the two components, only one was related to one-month follow-up. Factor loadings and post hoc analyses suggested that of the six visuospatial tests, the Rey-Osterrieth test (visual construction and memory) was related to one-month follow-up of the trained and untrained tasks. Thus, it may be plausible that older adults’ long-term motor learning capacity could be evaluated using the Rey-Osterrieth test, which would be feasible to administer prior to motor rehabilitation to indicate risk of non-responsiveness to therapy.

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  • This work was supported in part by the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health (K01AG047926 and R03AG056822 to SYS, and F31AG062057 to JLV); the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation (Spetzler Scholarship to JLV). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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Evidence for associations between Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test and motor skill learning in older adults
Jennapher Lingo VanGilder, Keith R. Lohse, Kevin Duff, Peiyuan Wang, Sydney Y. Schaefer
bioRxiv 2020.09.27.315168; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.27.315168
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Evidence for associations between Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test and motor skill learning in older adults
Jennapher Lingo VanGilder, Keith R. Lohse, Kevin Duff, Peiyuan Wang, Sydney Y. Schaefer
bioRxiv 2020.09.27.315168; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.27.315168

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