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Balas, Benjamin – Developmental Science, 2010
Newborn infants appear to possess an innate bias that guides preferential orienting to and tracking of human faces. There is, however, no clear agreement as to the underlying mechanism supporting such a preference. In particular, two competing theories (known as the "structural" and "sensory" hypotheses) conjecture fundamentally different biasing…
Descriptors: Investigations, Infants, Human Body, Psychomotor Skills
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Przysucha, Eryk P.; Taylor, M. Jane; Weber, Douglas – Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 2008
This study compared the nature of postural adaptations and control tendencies, between 7 (n = 9) and 11-year-old boys (n = 10) with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and age-matched, younger (n = 10) and older (n = 9) peers in a leaning task. Examination of anterior-posterior, medio-lateral, maximum and mean area of sway, and path length…
Descriptors: Males, Motor Development, Perceptual Motor Coordination, Lateral Dominance