Department of Physical Therapy.
Department of Psychology.
Dev Psychol. 2022 May;58(5):807-820. doi: 10.1037/dev0001336. Epub 2022 Mar 21.
Behavioral flexibility-the ability to tailor motor actions to changing body-environment relations-is critical for functional movement. Navigating the everyday environment requires the ability to generate a wide repertoire of actions, select the appropriate action for the current situation, and implement it quickly and accurately. We used a new, adjustable barrier paradigm to assess flexibility of motor actions in 20 17-month-old (eight girls, 12 boys) and 14 13-month-old (seven girls, eight boys) walking infants and a comparative sample of 14 adults (eight women, six men). Most participants were White, non-Hispanic, and middle class. Participants navigated under barriers normalized to their standing height (overhead, eye, chest, hip, and knee heights). Decreases in barrier height required lower postures for passage. Every participant altered their initial walking posture according to barrier height for every trial, and all but two 13-month-olds found solutions for passage. Compared to infants, adults displayed a wider variety of strategies (squat-walking, half-kneeling, etc.), found more appropriate solutions based on barrier height (ducked at eye height and low crawled at knee height), and implemented their solutions more quickly (within 4 s) and accurately (without bumping their heads against the barrier). Infants frequently crawled even when the barrier height did not warrant a low posture, displayed multiple postural shifts prior to passage and thus took longer to go, and often bumped their heads. Infants' improvements were related to age and walking experience. Thus, development of flexibility likely involves the contributions of multiple domains-motor, perception, and cognition-that facilitate strategy selection and implementation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
行为灵活性——即根据身体-环境关系的变化来调整运动动作的能力——对于功能性运动至关重要。在日常生活环境中导航需要有能力生成广泛的动作 repertoire,为当前情况选择适当的动作,并快速准确地执行它。我们使用了一种新的、可调节的障碍范式来评估 20 名 17 个月大(8 名女孩,12 名男孩)和 14 名 13 个月大(7 名女孩,8 名男孩)行走婴儿以及 14 名成人(8 名女性,6 名男性)的运动动作灵活性。大多数参与者是白人、非西班牙裔和中产阶级。参与者在根据其站立高度(头顶、眼睛、胸部、臀部和膝盖高度)进行标准化的障碍下进行导航。障碍高度的降低需要更低的姿势通过。每个参与者根据每个试验的障碍高度改变其初始行走姿势,除了两个 13 个月大的孩子外,所有孩子都找到了通过的解决方案。与婴儿相比,成年人表现出更多样化的策略(蹲走、半跪等),根据障碍高度找到更合适的解决方案(眼睛高度时弯腰,膝盖高度时爬行),并且更快速(在 4 秒内)和准确(头部不碰到障碍)地执行解决方案。即使障碍高度不需要低姿势,婴儿也经常爬行,在通过之前会多次改变姿势,因此需要更长的时间,并且经常会碰到头部。婴儿的进步与年龄和行走经验有关。因此,灵活性的发展可能涉及多个领域的贡献——运动、感知和认知——这些领域有助于策略选择和实施。(PsycInfo 数据库记录(c)2022 APA,保留所有权利)。