Sensitivity to proprioceptive feedback in obese subjects.
Percept Mot Skills
; 57(3 Pt 2): 1111-8, 1983 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
40 subjects, 20 obese and 20 normal, were run on a weight-discrimination task requiring judgments dependent on proprioceptive feedback. A signal-detection analysis was used to separate sensory factors from non-sensory, response-bias factors in the analysis of the discriminations. Obese subjects were inferior to normals in ability to make sensory discriminations; the largest differences occurred between obese and normal males. Obese subjects also adopted a more strict criterion (beta); the largest differences again occurred for male subjects. Obese subjects showed more variability in their sensory judgments, although there was a significant difference on only one of the 5 discrimination tasks. Results are discussed in terms of the internal-external explanation of obesity.
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Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Propiocepción
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Percepción del Peso
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Obesidad
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Año:
1983
Tipo del documento:
Article