Article

I investigated developmental and ability differences on a visual-motor
task that requires inhibition of misleading information. METHOD: Children,
including those with and without learning disabilities, and adults copied simple
line or dot figures inside a tilted frame with instructions to make the figures
straight. Two response methods were used: drawing (motor) and placement of bars
or washers (motor reduced). RESULTS: All participants were influenced by the
misleading frame, making figures that deviated from true vertical in both motor
and motor-reduced formats. Adults were less influenced than children, and
children with learning disabilities were more influenced than their peers.
Production of more complex figures resulted in increased influence of the
misleading frame. CONCLUSION: The ability to inhibit misleading contextual
information and find an appropriate frame of reference may be an important
developmental process in visual-motor skill development. Implications for
assessment and task analysis are discussed.

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