Easy assessment tool for motor imagery ability in elementary scool students

Easy assessment tool for motor imagery ability in elementary scool students

[Purpose] The final purpose of the present study was to propose easy and quick mental rotation task. Since subjects can easily understand mental rotation task that they have to do, the task is considered to be available in particular children. However, existing mental rotation task using specific software asked subjects more than ten trials per one pictured stimulus, meaning that relatively lon...

Measuring motor imagery ability: A review

Motor imagery ability in stroke patients: the relationship between implicit and explicit motor imagery measures

There is little consensus on how motor imagery ability should be measured in stroke patients. In particular it is unclear how two methods tapping different aspects of the motor imagery process relate to each other. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between implicit and explicit motor imagery ability by comparing performance of stroke patients and controls on a motor imag...

Developing an Assessment Tool for Nursing Students` General Clinical Performance

Introduction: The necessity of valid and reliable assessment tools is one of the most emphasized issues in literature related to nursing students` clinical assessment. But it is believed that the present tools are mostly not valid and reliable, and can not measure students` performances properly. The aim of this study was to design a valid and reliable assessment tool for evaluation of nursing ...

Are There Gender-specific Differences in Elementary Motor Speed Ability?

The purpose of this study was to analyse gender-specific differences in elementary motor speed ability. The reliability of 7 tests with 15 items was investigated using intra-classcoefficients. Gender-specific differences of performance were analysed using independent samples t-tests. There were no differences between men and women in elementary motor speed. The structure of the elementary motor...