Motor Skills

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Use of chopsticks in Chinese children.

OBJECTIVE: There has been no study on the developmental stage of acquiring the skill of using chopsticks, which is a common eating tool of the Orientals. We aimed to obtain a developmental profile for achieving the skills of chopsticks manipulation in ...
Sheila Wong, Kingsley Chan, Virginia Wong, Wilfred Wong (Child Care Health Dev, 200203)
chopsticks-chinese-children.asp

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Evaluation of a combined brake-accelerator pedal.

Over the years, designers have developed various combined brake-accelerator pedals in an effort to eliminate the operators risk of pressing the wrong pedal as well as to reduce his or her reaction time in braking. The goal of this study is to highlight ...
Rickard Nilsson (Accid Anal Prev, 200203)
evaluation-combined-brake-accelerator-pedal.asp

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Correlation of admission criteria with dental school performance and attrition.

This study was conducted to provide current information on the relationship between admission criteria and dental school performance, including the association of admission criteria and dental school outcomes such as remediation and attrition. Standard ...
Pamela L Sandow, Anne C Jones, Chuck W Peek, Frank J Courts, Ronald E Watson (J Dent Educ, 200203)
correlation-admission-criteria-dental-school-performance-attrition.asp

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Structure of joint variability in bimanual pointing tasks.

Changes in the structure of motor variability during practicing a bimanual pointing task were investigated using the framework of the uncontrolled manifold (UCM) hypothesis. The subjects performed fast and accurate planar movements with both arms, one ...
Dmitry Domkin, Jozsef Laczko, Slobodan Jaric, Hakan Johansson, Mark L Latash (Exp Brain Res, 200203)
structure-joint-variability-bimanual-pointing-tasks.asp

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Implicit motor learning through observational training in adults and children.

Although evidence of implicit motor learning on the basis of observation alone has been reported, there is some data to suggest that the phenomenon could be contaminated by the intentional exploitation of explicit knowledge. In the present experiment, a ...
Annie Vinter, Pierre Perruchet (Mem Cognit, 200203)
implicit-motor-learning-observational-training-adults-children.asp

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When paying attention becomes counterproductive: impact of divided versus skill-focused attention on novice and experienced performance of sensorimotor skills.

Two experiments examined the impact of attention on sensorimotor skills. In Experiment 1, experienced golfers putted under dual-task conditions designed to distract attention from putting and under skill-focused conditions that prompted attention to ...
Sian L Beilock, Thomas H Carr, Clare MacMahon, Janet L Starkes (J Exp Psychol Appl, 200203)
paying-attention-becomes-counterproductive-impact-divided-versus.asp

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Maturation of finger-synchronization skills.

The ability to move two fingers at the same time was measured in young and older adults. This study measured the accuracy with which 45 normally developing children (23 boys, 22 girls; mean ages 8.4 and 8.3 years respectively) and 49 young adults (25 ...
Oliver Milling-Smith, Paul Eunson, E Geoffrey Walsh (Dev Med Child Neurol, 200203)
maturation-finger-synchronization-skills.asp

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Effects of diet on the neurologic development of children at 5 years of age: the STRIP project.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effects of diet, serum cholesterol concentrations, and apolipoprotein E phenotype on neurodevelopment of 5-year-old children. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective, 4.4-year cohort study in 496 children. Fat-modified diet was introduced ...
Leena Rask-Nissilä, Eero Jokinen, Pirjo Terho, Anne Tammi, Maarit Hakanen, Tapani Rönnemaa, Jorma Viikari, Ritva Seppänen, Ilkka Välimäki, Hans Helenius, Olli Simell (J Pediatr, 200203)
effects-diet-neurologic-development-children-years-age-strip-project.asp

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Neuropsychologic and motor function in small-for-gestation preschoolers.

The aim of this study was to evaluate neuropsychologic and motor performance in term small-for-gestation preschool children. A patient-based sample of 311 5-year-old children with birth weights less than the fifteenth percentile for gestation was ...
Kristian Sommerfelt, Karin Sonnander, Jon Skranes, Helle W Andersson, Gunnar Ahlsten, Bjørn Ellertsen, Trond Markestad, Geir Jacobsen, Howard J Hoffman, Leiv S Bakketeig (Pediatr Neurol, 200203)
neuropsychologic-motor-function-small-gestation-preschoolers.asp

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Age, sex, and body mass index in performance of selected locomotor and fitness tasks by children in grades K-2.

The purpose of this study was to examine the contributions of 3 predictor variables (age, sex, and body mass index) to performance of 7 fundamental movement skills (locomotor; run, gallop, hop, leap, jump, skip, and slide) and 4 fitness tasks (grip ...
Stephen A Butterfeld, Robert A Lehnhard, Theodore Coladarci (Percept Mot Skills, 200202)
age-sex-body-mass-index-performance-selected-locomotor-fitness-tasks.asp