The Life-long development and the application to rehabilitation in spatial perspective taking

本研究通过终身发展研究考察了儿童空间视角选择能力的特点。为了评估这种能力，设计了一个电子游戏任务，大约840名健康的人，从年幼的孩子到老年人都参与了这项研究。每个年龄组的每个参与者的反应时间和正确反应的数量证实，想象的身体运动持续发展到成年，在正常衰老中保持健壮，除想象身体运动之外的信息处理功能在6-13岁组之间加速。这些结果被应用于中风后遗症的康复试验。

This study examined the characteristics of spatial perspective taking ability through a lifelong developmental study. A video game task was devised to evaluate this ability, and about eight hundred and forty healthy individuals from younger children to the old people participated in the study. Response times and numbers of correct responses for each participant of each age group confirmed that imaginary body movement continued to develop until adulthood, it remained robust in normal aging, and information processing functions other than imagination of body movement was accelerated between 6- and 13-year old groups. These results were applied to the trial of rehabilitation for apoplexy sequelae.