Proceedings of the 2022 6th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2022)

Finger Dexterity and Attention in the Elderly

Authors
Yuqing Wang1, *, Yikai Kong2
1College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52245, USA
2Suzhou North America High School, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
*Corresponding author. Email: itchloew@gmail.com
Corresponding Author
Yuqing Wang
Available Online 29 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-31-2_421How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Attention; Finger Tapping; Short term memory; Finger Exercise; Digital Span Task
Abstract

Based on Rabinowitz et al. pointed out that there is an association exists between finger tapping and attention. The proposal study was based on the previous study and increased the speed of finger tapping to test the effect of finger dexterity on the attention of older adults. In this work, we tested whether finger exercise will be able to improve the attention span of the older person by the way of increase the speed of finger taps. We also tested whether the faster the tapping of the fingers, the better the attention span of the older person.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 6th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-31-2_421
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-31-2_421How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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