Motor learning and chunking in dyslexia

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 331-338

  De Kleine, Elian ^a   Verwey, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chunking; Dyslexia; Motor performance; Sequence learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 67650324415     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JMBR.41.4.331-338     Document Type: Article

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