Stay Focused! The Effects of Internal and External Focus of Attention on Movement Automaticity in Patients with Stroke

Dual-task performance is often impaired after stroke. This may be resolved by enhancing patients’ automaticity of movement. This study sets out to test the constrained action hypothesis, which holds that automaticity of movement is enhanced by triggering an external focus (on movement effects), rath...

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Main Authors: Kal, E. C., van der Kamp, J., Houdijk, H., Groet, E., van Bennekom, C. A. M., Scherder, E. J. A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4552655/