Age-related declines in motor learning may be related to poor visuospatial function. Thus, visuospatial testing could evaluate older adults' potential for motor learning, which has implications for geriatric motor rehabilitation. To this end, the purpose of this study was to identify which visuospatial test is most predictive of motor learning within older adults. Forty-five nondemented older adults completed six standardized visuospatial tests, followed by three weekly practice sessions on a functional upper-extremity motor task. Participants were re-tested 1 month later on the trained task and another untrained upper-extremity motor task to evaluate the durability and generalizability of motor learning, respectively. Principal component analysis first reduced the dimensions of the visuospatial battery to two principal components for inclusion in a mixed-effects model that assessed one-month follow-up performance as a function of baseline performance and the principal components. Of the two components, only one was related to one-month follow-up. Factor loadings and post hoc analyses suggested that of the six visuospatial tests, the Rey-Osterrieth test (visual construction and memory) was related to one-month follow-up of the trained and untrained tasks. Thus, it may be plausible that older adults' long-term motor learning capacity could be evaluated using the Rey-Osterrieth test, which would be feasible to administer prior to motor rehabilitation to indicate risk of non-responsiveness to therapy.

与年龄相关的运动学习下降可能与视觉空间功能差有关。因此，视觉空间测试可以评估老年人运动学习的潜力，这对老年运动康复有影响。为此，本研究的目的是确定哪种视觉空间测试最能预测老年人的运动学习。45 名未痴呆的老年人完成了六项标准化视觉空间测试，然后每周进行三次关于功能性上肢运动任务的练习。1 个月后，参与者在受过训练的任务和另一项未经训练的上肢运动任务上重新测试，以分别评估运动学习的持久性和普遍性。主成分分析首先将视觉空间电池的维度减少到两个主成分，以包含在一个混合效应模型中，该模型将一个月的随访表现作为基线表现和主成分的函数进行评估。在这两个组成部分中，只有一个与一个月的随访有关。因子加载和事后分析表明，在六项视觉空间测试中，Rey-Osterrieth 测试（视觉构造和记忆）与训练和未训练任务的 1 个月随访有关。因此，可以使用 Rey-Osterrieth 测试评估老年人的长期运动学习能力，这在运动康复之前进行管理以表明对治疗无反应的风险是可行的。