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This study was designed to investigate how normal aging affects motor planning for the grasping of everyday objects.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec002\">\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Sixty-nine right-handed adults with no cognitive impairment participated in the study. They were divided according to age into a young group (n\u2009=\u200930, aged 18\u201330 years) or an old group (n\u2009=\u200939, aged 65 years and older). Their motor-planning abilities were assessed using an object-grasping judgment task, their manual dexterity with a timed peg placement task and their motor imagery abilities with the Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire. For all variables, a nonparametric Mann\u2013Whitney U test was used to identify differences between the two groups. Spearman\u2019s rho correlation was used to examine the relationships between motor-planning ability and manual dexterity score, as well as between motor-planning ability and motor imagery ability, in each group.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec003\">\n                    <jats:title>Results and discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Compared with the young group, the old group took longer to choose the correct grasp during the object-grasping judgment task and had poorer manual dexterity. Analysis of the correlations suggested that the older participants who had the longest response times in the object-grasping judgment task tended to place the fewest pegs in the manual dexterity task and to have the lowest motor imagery skills.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"sec004\">\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Aging may affect motor planning in a particular way. It does not affect the ability to build the expected motor plan, but appears to slow down the information processing needed to build that plan. 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