How Children with Congenital Limb Deficiencies Visually Attend to Their Limbs and Prostheses: Eye Tracking of Displayed Still Images and Visuospatial Body Knowledge.
Dev Neurorehabil
; 24(8): 547-554, 2021 Nov.
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ABSTRACT
Purpose:
This study aimed to clarify how children with congenital limb deficiencies visually attend to their bodies, particularly their limbs and prostheses.Methods:
Participants included children with and without congenital limb deficiencies. They were shown photographs of themselves and their visual attention was measured using an eye tracker.Results:
Six children with lower limb deficiencies (age [mean ± SD] 8.8 ± 2.9; 2 girls and 4 boys), six children with upper limb deficiencies (age 7.0 ± 2.3; 2 girls and 4 boys), and ten control children (age 7.7 ± 1.9; 5 girls and 5 boys) were included. Children with congenital upper/lower limb deficiencies looked at their upper/lower limbs as often or more than the control children. Prompts to direct their visual attention to their limbs had limited efficacy.Conclusions:
To improve the body knowledge of limbs, approaches other than visual recognition prompting, such as improving linguistic understanding, might be considered.Palavras-chave
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Membros Artificiais
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Tecnologia de Rastreamento Ocular
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En
Ano de publicação:
2021
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