Hand-eye coordination

One of the six dsm-5 cognitive domains: coordinating what you see and sense with how you move — visuospatial judgment, praxis, and the speed of a reaction that ends in a movement.

Motivation increases it.

In this randomised placebo-controlled trial, dopaminergic treatment with levodopa produced dose-dependent benefit on the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale, with levodopa groups changing by -1.4 to +1.9 units while the placebo group deteriorated by 7.8 units, so raising dopaminergic signalling improved motor performance. doi 10.1056/NEJMoa033447 · PMID 15590952

Nerve insulation increases it.

WM integrity supports the communication among cortical networks, particularly those involving executive function, perceptual speed, and memory (i.e., fluid cognition). PMC3503892 Measured as white-matter integrity on diffusion imaging (DTI), an indirect proxy for myelin. PMC3503892

Memory chemical increases it.

Cholinergic denervation patterns were associated with attention, executive, and visuospatial functioning, but not memory. PMC11755113

Visual perception increases it.

The DSM-5 Neurocognitive Work Group agreed on six principal domains of cognitive function, each with subdomains. Perceptual-motor function comprises visual perception, visuoconstructional reasoning, perceptual-motor coordination, praxis and gnosis. Taxonomic edge, not a causal mechanism: this is a DSM-5 domain/subdomain relationship, not a pathway acting on another. Sachdev 2014, Nat Rev Neurol 10:634-642 — Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181 The manual's own table, which carries praxis and gnosis, is reproduced as 'perceptual-motor praxis gnosis' in Table 1 of doi 10.1002/alz.12365 (Harmonizing neuropsychological assessment for mild neurocognitive disorders in Europe), mapped onto the DSM-5 domains. Scope stated before anyone asks: Sachdev's Figure 2 is an ABRIDGED rendering of the DSM-5 table and does not carry every subdomain named here, so the manual's own wording is cited beside it. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181

Spatial construction increases it.

The DSM-5 Neurocognitive Work Group agreed on six principal domains of cognitive function, each with subdomains. Perceptual-motor function comprises visual perception, visuoconstructional reasoning, perceptual-motor coordination, praxis and gnosis. Taxonomic edge, not a causal mechanism: this is a DSM-5 domain/subdomain relationship, not a pathway acting on another. Sachdev 2014, Nat Rev Neurol 10:634-642 — Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181 The manual's own table, which carries praxis and gnosis, is reproduced as 'perceptual-motor praxis gnosis' in Table 1 of doi 10.1002/alz.12365 (Harmonizing neuropsychological assessment for mild neurocognitive disorders in Europe), mapped onto the DSM-5 domains. Scope stated before anyone asks: Sachdev's Figure 2 is an ABRIDGED rendering of the DSM-5 table and does not carry every subdomain named here, so the manual's own wording is cited beside it. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181

Learned movement increases it.

The DSM-5 Neurocognitive Work Group agreed on six principal domains of cognitive function, each with subdomains. Perceptual-motor function comprises visual perception, visuoconstructional reasoning, perceptual-motor coordination, praxis and gnosis. Taxonomic edge, not a causal mechanism: this is a DSM-5 domain/subdomain relationship, not a pathway acting on another. Sachdev 2014, Nat Rev Neurol 10:634-642 — Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181 The manual's own table, which carries praxis and gnosis, is reproduced as 'perceptual-motor praxis gnosis' in Table 1 of doi 10.1002/alz.12365 (Harmonizing neuropsychological assessment for mild neurocognitive disorders in Europe), mapped onto the DSM-5 domains. Scope stated before anyone asks: Sachdev's Figure 2 is an ABRIDGED rendering of the DSM-5 table and does not carry every subdomain named here, so the manual's own wording is cited beside it. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181

Object recognition increases it.

10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1452979 — The DSM-5 Neurocognitive Work Group agreed on six principal domains of cognitive function, each with subdomains. Perceptual-motor function comprises visual perception, visuoconstructional reasoning, perceptual-motor coordination, praxis and gnosis. Taxonomic edge, not a causal mechanism: this is a DSM-5 domain/subdomain relationship, not a pathway acting on another. Sachdev 2014, Nat Rev Neurol 10:634-642 — Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181 The manual's own table, which carries praxis and gnosis, is reproduced as 'perceptual-motor praxis gnosis' in Table 1 of doi 10.1002/alz.12365 (Harmonizing neuropsychological assessment for mild neurocognitive disorders in Europe), mapped onto the DSM-5 domains. Scope stated before anyone asks: Sachdev's Figure 2 is an ABRIDGED rendering of the DSM-5 table and does not carry every subdomain named here, so the manual's own wording is cited beside it. doi 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1452979

Spatial navigation increases it.

Each cognitive domain consists of more granular cognitive types. Front Psychiatry 2018;9:461.

It increases Memory & focus.

The DSM-5 Neurocognitive Work Group agreed on six principal domains of cognitive function — complex attention, executive function, learning and memory, language, perceptual-motor and social cognition. Taxonomic edge, not a causal mechanism: this is a DSM-5 domain/subdomain relationship, not a pathway acting on another. Sachdev 2014, Nat Rev Neurol 10:634-642 — Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181

It increases Learned movement.

Praxis is a measured subdomain of perceptual-motor function. PMC6119712

It increases Spatial construction.

Visuoconstructional ability is a measured subdomain of perceptual-motor function. doi 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00461

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