Impact of task difficulty and motor ability on visual-motor task performance of children with and without developmental coordination disorder

Human Movement Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 217-232

  Cantin, Noémi ^a   Ryan, Jennifer ^a,b   Polatajko, Helene J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aiming; Developmental coordination disorder; Eye hand coordination; Motor processes; Movement time; Visual motor performance

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER; EYE HAND COORDINATION; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT ASSESSMENT BATTERY FOR CHILDREN; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; APTITUDE; ATTENTION; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE;

APTITUDE; ATTENTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84899095061     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: 18727646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2014.02.006     Document Type: Article

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