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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-3-27
pubmed:abstractText
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between horizontal and vertical components of handwriting production when subjects were instructed to vary the size of these components separately or together. The effect of vision on these instructed size transformations also was examined. Eight female adults participated in the experiment. The basic task was to write the words 'poppy' and 'wood' cursively five times, the first time in their normal size and then with four size transformations. These transformations--one-fourth, one-half, double, and four-times their normal size--were made under three different sets of instructions (width only, height only, both) and in two visual conditions (normal, blindfolded), for a total of six sets of five repetitions. The individual slopes (changes in actual values across the transformation values) for width and height under instructions to change both parameters were almost identical to the width and height slopes under instructions to change only the single parameter, supporting the notion of the independence of the horizontal and vertical components. Further, an analysis of these individual slopes indicated that the size transformations were significantly greater (p less than 0.05) (and closer to the instructed values) with vision than without vision.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0001-6918
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
75
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
201-12
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
The independence of horizontal and vertical dimensions in handwriting with and without vision.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Minnesota, College of Education, Division of Physical Education, Minneapolis 55455.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article