A motor skill is a function that involves specific movements of the body's muscles to perform a certain task. These tasks could include walking, running...

Fine motor skill (or dexterity) is the coordination of small muscles in movement with the eyes, hands and fingers. The complex levels of manual dexterity...

Gross motor skills are the abilities usually acquired during childhood as part of a child's motor learning. By the time they reach two years of age, almost...

Deficits in fine or gross motor skills movements interfere with activities of daily living. It is often described as disorder in skill acquisition, where the...

Motor skill consolidation represents the process by which motor skills are transformed from an initial fragile state, in which they are especially prone...

dancing, and drawing. The origins of research for the acquisition of motor skills stem from philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle and Galen. After the...

physical skills such as movement, coordination, manipulation, dexterity, grace, strength, speed—actions which demonstrate the fine or gross motor skills, such...

height, weight, strength etc. over their lifetimes. Motor learning enables animals to gain new skills, and improves the smoothness and accuracy of movements...

mind, as opposed to other types of skills such as motor skills. Some examples of cognitive skills are literacy, self-reflection, logical reasoning, abstract...

Fine motor skills are the coordination of small muscle movements which occur e.g., in the fingers, usually in coordination with the eyes. In application...

loss of ability to execute certain skills in experienced athletes. Symptoms of the yips are losing fine motor skills and psychological issues that impact...

Perceptual and Motor Skills is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal established by Robert B. Ammons and Carol H. Ammons in 1949. The journal covers...

in whether writing refers only to the motor skills involved in writing, or if it also includes orthographic skills and spelling. Dysgraphia should be distinguished...

ties to the muscular system and the circulatory system. To achieve motor skill, the motor system must accommodate the working state of the muscles, whether...

in the dangerous motor skill of leaping between tree branches (Cartmill, 1974; Silcox, 2007). As a result of this pressure, the motor system of arboreal...

motor skill learning" (PDF). Psychological Review. 82 (4): 225–260. doi:10.1037/h0076770. Shumway-Cook, Anne; Woollacott, Marjorie H. (2001). Motor control :...

sense of the position of their body and how that changes throughout the motor skill they are trying to perform. While performing the motion the body will...

Sensory Motor: (birth to about age 2) In the first stage in Piaget's theory, infants have the following basic senses: vision, hearing, and motor skills. In...

Implicit procedural learning is essential for the development of any motor skill or cognitive activity. The difference between procedural and declarative...

A game of skill or game of wits is a game where the outcome is determined mainly by mental or physical skill, rather than chance. Alternatively, a game...

Neuroscience (17): 3, 964–3, 979. S. Corkin (1968). "Acquisition of motor skill after bilateral medial temporal-lobe excision". Neuropsychologia. 6 (3):...

most cases of WS, and include delay of language abilities and delayed motor-skill development. People with WS develop language abilities quite late relative...

(August 1994). "Ball color, eye color, and a reactive motor skill". Perceptual and Motor Skills. 79 (1 Pt 2): 671–674. doi:10.2466/pms.1994.79.1.671....

Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and socionics, is its emphasis on motor skills. Each of the sixteen brain types is said to specialize in certain regions...

comprehensive review of 544 skills from 25 skill areas including language, social interaction, self-help, academic and motor skills that most typically developing...

intelligence. It is thought to tap spatial visualization ability and motor skill. The test-taker uses hand movements to rearrange blocks that have various...

orthopedics; strength and conditioning; sport psychology; motor control; skill acquisition and motor learning; methods of rehabilitation, such as physical...

parameterising movements in a consistent way. This has been explained with motor skill impairment either due to lack of attention or lack of inhibition. To...

ataxia, a loss of both gross and fine motor skills, which often manifests as a staggering and stumbling gait. Pure motor hemiparesis, a form of hemiparesis...

known as mixed-handedness, hand confusion, or mixed dominance, is a motor skill manifestation in which a person favors one hand for some tasks and the...