Motor Development in Early and Later Childhood: Longitudinal Approaches

David Magnusson

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511663284

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.

"The variety of approaches, richness of the original data presented, the large number of references from many sources combine to make this a very stimulating collection." Perceptual and Motor Skills

"...[the book's] scope is very impressive...the editors (and authors) have done a splendid job of cross-referencing among the different parts of the book...an interesting and quite readable summary..." H.L. Pick, Contemporary Psychology

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi
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Contents
pp vii-ix
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List of contributors
pp x-xii
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Foreword
pp xiii-xiv
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Preface
pp xv-xviii
- By Alex F. Kalverboer, Brian Hopkins, Reint Geuze
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SETTING THE SCENE
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1 - Motor development in children at risk: two decades of research in experimental clinical psychology
pp 1-14
- By A. F. Kalverboer
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2 - Longitudinal studies in motor development: developmental neurological considerations
pp 15-34
- By B. C. L. Touwen
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SECTION I - BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF MOTOR DEVELOPMENT
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3 - Principles of early motor development in the human
pp 35-50
- By H. F. R. Prechtl
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4 - Natural priorities for developmental study: neuroembryological perspectives of motor development
pp 51-73
- By R. R. Provine
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5 - The ‘fixed action pattern’ concept revisited: an ethological commentary on the chapters by Prechtl and Provine
pp 74-88
- By G. P. Baerends, T. G. G. Groothuis
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SECTION II - DEVELOPMENT OF BODY POSTURE AND GOAL-DIRECTED REACHING
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6 - Early postnatal development of posture control: normal and abnormal aspects
pp 89-108
- By M. H. Woollacott
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7 - Studying the development of goal-directed behaviour
pp 109-124
- By C. von Hofsten
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8 - Development of motor functions: a ‘developmental neurological’ approach
pp 125-135
- By P. Casaer
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SECTION III - MOTOR DEVELOPMENT, EARLY COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION
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9 - Early interactional signalling: the role of facial movements
pp 136-152
- By H. Papoušek, M. Papoušek
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10 - Motor development: communication and cognition
pp 153-165
- By G. Butterworth, F. Franco
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11 - On faces and hands and the development of communication
pp 166-173
- By B. Hopkins
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SECTION IV - ACQUISITION OF SKILLS
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12 - Individual patterns of tool use by infants
pp 174-204
- By K. Connolly, M. Dalgleish
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13 - Tool use, hand cooperation and the development of object manipulation in human and non-human primates
pp 205-216
- By J. Vauclair
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14 - Handwriting: a developmental perspective
pp 217-228
- By G. P. Van Galen
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15 - Development of children's writing performance: some educational implications
pp 229-246
- By N. Søvik
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SECTION V - MOTOR DEVELOPMENT AND HANDICAP
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16 - Early motor development in term and preterm children
pp 247-265
- By R. H. Largoy, S. Kundu, L. Thun-Hohenstein
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17 - Relationship between perinatal risk factors and motor development at the ages of 5 and 9 years
pp 266-285
- By K. Michelsson, E. Lindahl
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18 - Motor development and minor handicap
pp 286-306
- By S. E. Henderson
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19 - Longitudinal and cross-sectional approaches in experimental studies in motor development
pp 307-316
- By R. H. Geuze
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