Learning new movement patterns: A study on good and poor writers comparing learning conditions emphasizing spatial, timing or abstract characteristics

Human Movement Science

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 731-744

  Overvelde, Anneloes ^a,b,c   Hulstijn, Wouter ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AVANS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c Practice for Paediatric Physiotherapy   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

2330; Children; Handwriting; Motor control; Motor learning; Poor writing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LEARNING; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NETHERLANDS; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; TEACHING;

BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REMEDIAL TEACHING;

EID: 79959867575     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: 18727646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2010.08.016     Document Type: Article

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