Are graphomotor tasks affected by working in the contralateral hemispace in 6- to 10-year-old children?

Motor Control

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 521-533

  Smits Engelsman, Bouwien C M ^a,b,c   Swinnen, Stephan P ^c   Duysens, Jacques ^d  

^a AVANS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c SINT MAARTENSKLINIEK   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fine motor skills; Goal directed movement; Ipsilateral space; Motor activities

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; WRITING; BRAIN; ELECTRONICS; HANDWRITING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GOALS; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 16644379597     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.8.4.521     Document Type: Article

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