Learning to reach with "sticky" or "non-sticky" mittens: A tale of developmental trajectories

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 38, Issue , 2015, Pages 82-96

  Williams, Joshua L ^a   Corbetta, Daniela ^a   Guan, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Perceptual motor learning; Reaching; Sensory motor experience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRASPHING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; KINEMATICS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACHING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; BEHAVIOR; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; HAND STRENGTH; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOUCH;

ATTENTION; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENTION; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

EID: 84921783300     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: 19348800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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