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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Objective There is a strong interaction between motor skills and cognitive benefits for children and young people. The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between motor skill types and their development and the cognitive benefits of children
Xiaosu Feng, Feng Xiaosu
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Do Gross and Fine Motor Skills Differentially Contribute to Language Outcomes? A Systematic Review
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Background: Changes in motor development provide children with new learning opportunities to interact with objects, their environment, and with caregivers.
Sandy L. Gonzalez +3 more
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Individual differences in basic numerical skills: The role of executive functions and motor skills
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2019 The aim of the current study was to explore individual differences in basic numerical skills in a normative sample of 151 kindergarteners (mean age = 6.45 years).
Fred Mast +2 more
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Difference in effects of open and closed motor skills on energy expenditure and after-burn effect in college student within physical classes [PDF]
PeerJIntroduction Metabolic health is closely related to physical activity, and different types of motor skills may induce distinct physiological responses. To investigate the differences in energy expenditure and substrate metabolic characteristics between ...
Xue Sun +4 more
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Improving Motor Skills in Early Childhood through Goal-Oriented Play Activity
Children, 2021 Goal-oriented play activity encourages children to exercise and triggers the movement of body muscles. Active muscles are stronger, more agile, faster, and more powerful. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine that goal-oriented play activity
Panggung Sutapa +4 more
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A scoping review on developmental activities of girls' and women's sports
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 We provide a scoping review of research on athlete development in girls' and women's sports. Our emphasis is on pathways to expertise in the context of deliberate practice theory and associated models, such as the Developmental Model of Sport ...
Carrie M. Peters +2 more
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The basal ganglia control the detailed kinematics of learned motor skills
Nature Neuroscience, 2021 The basal ganglia are known to influence action selection and modulation of movement vigor, but whether and how they contribute to specifying the kinematics of learned motor skills is not understood.
Ashesh K. Dhawale +3 more
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Physical activity and motor skills in children: A differentiated approach
Psychology of Sport And Exercise, 2021 Being physically active plays an essential role in a child's physical development. While there is ample evidence for a positive association between physical activity (PA) and motor skills in children, the question of how PA should be implemented to ...
Laura C. Dapp +2 more
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Learning agile and dynamic motor skills for legged robots [PDF]
Science Robotics, 2019 A method for learning agile control policies uses simulated data to enable precise, efficient movements in a complex physical robot. Legged robots pose one of the greatest challenges in robotics.
Jemin Hwangbo +6 more
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