Human Research
KINARM Standard Tests
Visually Guided Reaching Task
The subject positions their hand at a central target and makes reaching movements to one of four or eight peripheral targets located on the circumference of a circle. Research has shown that stroke subjects displayed a range of deficits related to postural control, visual reaction time and feedforward and feedback control2. Intra-limb differences between the paretic and non-paretic limb provide an extra dimension to separate performance of control subjects from subjects with stroke.
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2Coderre, A.M., Abou Zeid, A., Dukelow, S.P., Demmer, M.J., Moore, K.D., Demers, M.J., Bretzke, H., Herter, T.M., Glasgow, J.I., Norman, K.E., Bagg, S.D. and Scott, S.H. (2010) Assessment of upper-limb sensorimotor function of subacute stroke subjects using visually-guided reaching. Neurorehabiliation and Neural Repair 24:528-541