This study examined the influence of deterministic and stochastic processes (including white Gaussian noise) on reductions in the amount of force output variability through childhood. The structure of the force signal produced during a constant isometric pinch grip task was examined as a function of age (6, 8, and 10 years, and young adults), availability of feedback information (with and without vision), digit (thumb and index finger), and force level (5, 15, 25, and 35% of maximal voluntary contraction). The amount of white Gaussian noise in the force signals was negligible and not age related. The availability of vision led increasingly over the older age groups to lower long-range correlations with more than a single scaling range in a 1/f-like decay process. The reductions in the amount of force variability from childhood to adulthood were related in large part to deterministic organization that increased the adaptive use of higher frequency components, due to the more flexible use of information feedback and feedforward processes.
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