Children with a learning disorder show prospective control impairments during visuomanual tracking

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 195-202

  van Roon, Dominique ^a   Caeyenberghs, Karen ^a   Swinnen, Stephan P ^a   Smits Engelsman, Bouwien C M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b AVANS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Eye hand coordination; Learning disorders; Motor control; Pursuit

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION DISORDER; EYE HAND COORDINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ACCELERATION; ATTENTION; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; EDUCATION, SPECIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURSUIT, SMOOTH;

EID: 70350719203     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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