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Examination of Movement Skills, Geometry and Spatial Perceptions: Children in the Preschool Period
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Kiliç, Zeynep; Yorulmaz, Alper – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2023
The aim of the study is to determine the movement skills, geometry and spatial perceptions of five-year-old children. The study group consisted of 222 children, 110 girls and 112 boys, who received preschool education in the spring semester of the 2021-2022 academic year in Istanbul, Türkiye. The correlational survey model, one of the quantitative…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Psychomotor Skills, Geometry, Spatial Ability
Quantifying Infant Exploratory Learning
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Kim, Jeong Ah; Park, Sungwoo; Fetters, Linda; Eckel, Sandrah P.; Kubo, Masayoshi; Sargent, Barbara – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2022
Exploration is considered essential to infant learning, but few studies have quantified infants' task exploration. The purpose of this study was to quantify how infants explored task space with their feet while learning to activate a kick-activated mobile. Data were analyzed from fifteen 4-month-old infants who participated in a 10-min mobile task…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Discovery Learning, Kinetics
Spatial, but Not Temporal, Kinematics of Spontaneous Upper Extremity Movements Are Related to Gross and Fine Motor Skill Attainment in Infancy
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Bican, Rachel; Lowes, Linda; Alfano, Lindsay; McNally, Michael; Durbak, Emily; Pan, Xueliang; Heathcock, Jill – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2022
Background: Spontaneous upper extremity movements in infancy provide insight on neuromotor development. Spatiotemporal kinematics have been used to evaluate typical development of reaching, a foundational motor skill in infancy. This study evaluates the relationship between spontaneous upper extremity movements, not elicited by a toy, and motor…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Kinetics, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development
Associations of Gross Motor Skills with Self-Regulation and Executive Function in Preschool-Aged Children
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Veldman, Sanne L. C.; Hammersley, Megan L.; Howard, Steven J.; Stanley, Rebecca M.; Okely, Anthony D.; Jones, Rachel A. – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
This study aimed to examine associations between gross motor skills and executive functions (EF) in a large sample of Australian preschool-aged children. Of 566 children (mean age = 3.2 ± 0.4 years, 51.2% girls), locomotor, object control, and total skill competence were significantly associated with visual spatial working memory and inhibition (p…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Self Management, Self Control, Executive Function
Developmental Changes in Children's Object Insertions during Play
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Bambha, Valerie P.; Beckner, Aaron G.; Shetty, Nikita; Voss, Annika T.; Xie, Jinlin; Yiu, Eunice; LoBue, Vanessa; Oakes, Lisa M.; Casasola, Marianella – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Spatial play in early childhood is associated with a variety of spatial and cognitive skills. However, these associations are often derived from studies in which different tasks are used across different age ranges, leaving open the question of how children's natural behaviors during spatial play develop from infancy into the early preschool…
Descriptors: Child Development, Object Manipulation, Psychomotor Skills, Problem Solving
Linking Fine Motor Skills with Theory of Mind in School-Age Children
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Obeid, Rita; DeNigris, Danielle; Brooks, Patricia J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Motor skills have been linked to language and social development with implications for theory of mind. This study examined theory of mind (attribution of intentions task) in school-age children (N = 62, mean age 8 years; 2 months, standard deviation [SD] = 1;3) in relation to fine motor skills (grooved pegboard), receptive vocabulary (Peabody…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Theory of Mind, Correlation