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Diamond, Adele – Child Development, 2000
Argues that motor and cognitive development may be fundamentally interrelated. Summarizes evidence of close co-activation of the neocerebellum and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in functional neuroimaging, similarities in the cognitive sequelae of damage to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the neocerebellum, motor deficits in…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Autism, Brain, Children
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Diamond, Adele; Lee, Eun Young – Child Development, 2000
Examined infants' ability to retrieve an object from atop a slightly larger object. Found that even 5-month-olds could retrieve objects close in size and fully contiguous with their bases when demands on reaching skill were reduced. Proposed that when they fail this task, it is because they lack the skill to reach the top object without…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior, Infants, Motor Development