Volume : II, Issue : IV, April - 2013

Relationship of Visual and Nonvisual Kinesthesis to the Performance of Perceptual Motor Skills

Pramod Singh, Subir Debnath

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Kinesthesis is the sense of position, location, orientation, weight, movement of the body and its parts are perceived. The Aim of present study was to investigate whether the visual (V_) and non-visual (NV_) kinesthesis related to perceptual motor skills (PMS) and to know the difference between relationship of V_ and NV_ kinesthesis and PMS. Two hundred male children from class 5-8th standard, age ranging from 10 -14 years were randomly selected as subject for the study. Subjects were randomly divided into four groups. Fisher motor performance test (FMPT) was used as a criterion measure. To find out the relationship of V_ and NV_ kinesthesis to the performance of PMS, Motor performance skill test - Distance Perception Jump test (V_DPJT and NV_DPJT), Shuffleboard Distance Perception test (V_SDPT and NV_SDPT), Kinesthetic Obstacle test (V_KOT and NV_KOT) and Bass Kinesthetic skill test (Lengthwise) (V_BKST and NV_BKST) were administered and the score obtained was recorded as per the standard literatures available. The relationship of FMPT with V_ and NV_ Kinesthesis to the performance of PMS was studied by using the Pearson\'s correlation coefficients Matrix reveals that all the correlation coefficient of V_ kinesthesis tests with NV_ kinesthesis tests values are found statistically highly correlated at p-value < .01. When compared, the result reveals that there is a statistically positive significant difference found between visual and non-visual test for BKST (10.21), SDPT (3.30) and DPT (14.74), however KOT was found to be statistically negative significant at p-value < .01. We found that participants could accurately estimate kinaesthetic sense for V_ and NV_ performance when reaching to targets. Result also revealed that Individual’s ability to predict position during movement without the use of the eyes is more related to the performance of PMS than with open eyes. Our results suggest that although vision can override kinesthesia to recaliate motor commands, it does not recaliate the kinesthetic sense of body

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Pramod Singh,Subir Debnath Relationship of Visual and Nonvisual Kinesthesis to the Performance of Perceptual Motor Skills International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.II, Issue.IV April 2013

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