Motor development in early and later childhood : longitudinal approaches
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Motor development in early and later childhood : longitudinal approaches
Cambridge University Press, 1992
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"European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development (ENLS)"--P. facing t.p
"Result of a workshop ... held in Groningen in June 1989"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Motor development is an integral part of the developmental process. Understanding the organization of the sensory-motor system and its adaptations in response to environmental factors is a vital part of understanding individual development as a whole. This volume describes and discusses human motor development using longitudinal study methods, and from an interdisciplinary perspective. Researchers from a variety of different backgrounds and disciplines provide a broad-ranging analysis of human motor development, from both the practical and theoretical standpoint, in a book which will be of great interest to paediatricians, psychologists, developmental biologists, developmental psychiatrists and neurologists as well as to research scientists in these fields.
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I. Setting The Scene: 1. Motor development in children at risk: two decades of research in experimental clinical psychology A. F. Kalverboer
- 2. Longitudinal studies in motor development: developmental neurological considerations B. C. L. Touwen
- Part II. Biological Basis of Motor Development: 3. Principles of early motor development in the human H. F. R. Prechtl
- Natural priorities for developmental study: neuroembryological perspectives of motor development R. R. Provine
- 5. The 'fixed action pattern' concept revisited: an ethological commentary on the chapters by Prechtl and Provine G. P. Baerends and T. G. G. Groothuis
- Part III. Development of Body Posture and Goal Directed Reaching: 6. Early postnatal development of posture control: normal and abnormal aspects M. H. Wollacott
- 7. Studying the development of goal-directed behaviour C. von Hofsten
- 8. Development of motor functions: a 'developmental neurological' approach P. Casaer
- Part IV. Motor Development, Early Communication and Cognition: 9. Early interactional signalling: the role of facial movements H. Papousek and M. Papousek
- 10. Motor development: communication and cognition G. Butterworth and F. Franco
- 11. On faces and hands and the development of communication B. Hopkins
- Part V. Acquisition Of Skills: 12. Individual patterns of tool use by infants K. Connolly and M. Dalgleshi
- 13. Tool use, hand cooperation and the development of object manipulation in human and non-human primates J. Vauclair
- 14. Handwriting: a developmental perspective G. P. Van Galen
- 15. Development of children's writing performance: some educational implications N. Sovik
- Part IV. Motor Development and Handicap: 16. Early motor development in term and preterm children R. H. Largo, S. Kundu and L. Thun-Hohenstein
- 17. Relationship between perinatal risk factors and motor development at the ages of 5 and 9 years K. Michelsson and E. Lindahl
- 18. Motor development and minor handicap S. E. Henderson
- 19. Longitudinal and cross-sectional approaches in experimental studies in motor development R. H. Geuze
- Part VII. Methodological and Conceptual Considerations: 20. The longitudinal study of motor development: methodological issues W. Schneider
- 21. Theoretical issues in the longitudinal study of motor development B. Hopkins, P. J. Beek and A. F. Kalverboer
- Epilogue: description versus explanation B. Hopkins, A. F. Kalverboer and R. H. Geuze
- Index.
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