Early motor skill competence as a mediator of child and adult physical activity
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2015 Objective: In order to effectively promote physical activity (PA) during childhood, and across the lifespan, a better understanding of the role of early motor skill development on child and adult PA is needed. Methods: Here, we propose a conceptual model
Paul D. Loprinzi +2 more
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Experience Playing a Musical Instrument and Overnight Sleep Enhance Performance on a Sequential Typing Task. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The smooth, coordinated fine motor movements required to play a musical instrument are not only highly valued in our society; they also predict academic success in areas that generalize beyond the motor domain, including reading and math readiness, and ...
Matthew A Tucker +2 more
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Brain Sciences, 2022 Cardiorespiratory or aerobic exercise immediately after practice of an upper-extremity motor skill task can facilitate skill consolidation, as demonstrated by enhanced performances at 24 h and 7-day retention tests.
Ali Khan +3 more
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A new method for tracking of motor skill learning through practical application of Fitts’ law [PDF]
, 2013 This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.A novel upper limb motor skill measure, task productivity rate (TPR) was developed integrating speed and spatial error, delivered by a practical motor skill rehabilitation task
Alexander Nowicky +16 more
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Dopamine Promotes Motor Cortex Plasticity and Motor Skill Learning via PLC Activation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area, the major midbrain nucleus projecting to the motor cortex, play a key role in motor skill learning and motor cortex synaptic plasticity. Dopamine D1 and D2 receptor antagonists exert parallel effects in
Mengia-Seraina Rioult-Pedotti +4 more
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Exercise enhances motor skill learning by neurotransmitter switching in the adult midbrain. [PDF]
, 2020 Physical exercise promotes motor skill learning in normal individuals and those with neurological disorders but its mechanism of action is unclear. We find that one week of voluntary wheel running enhances the acquisition of motor skills in normal adult ...
Li, Hui-Quan, Spitzer, Nicholas C
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Distributed representations accelerate evolution of adaptive behaviours [PDF]
, 2007 Animals with rudimentary innate abilities require substantial learning to transform those abilities into useful skills, where a skill can be considered as a set of sensory - motor associations.
Stone, J.V.
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Role of the dopamine system in motor skill learning : implications for neurodevelopmental disorders [PDF]
, 2014 Dopamine (DA), released by midbrain neurons, is critical for motor performance, motor skill learning, and corticostriatal synaptic plasticity. Dysregulation of DAergic signaling in corticostriatal circuitry has also been implicated in several highly ...
Qian, Yu
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The Effects of Combined Movement and Storytelling Intervention on Motor Skills in South Asian and White Children Aged 5–6 Years Living in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2020 Early motor development has an important role in promoting physical activity (PA) during childhood and across the lifespan. Children from South Asian backgrounds are less active and have poorer motor skills, thus identifying the need for early motor ...
Clark, Cain +7 more
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Dissociable effects of practice variability on learning motor and timing skills. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Motor skill acquisition inherently depends on the way one practices the motor task. The amount of motor task variability during practice has been shown to foster transfer of the learned skill to other similar motor tasks.
Baptiste Caramiaux +3 more
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