According to the Common Core Standards Initiative (2024), the English Language Arts writing standards (ELA-WS) are challenging standards designed to ensure mastery of literacy and writing skills. These standards require students to produce written work and images, skills that are reliant on motor development of fine motor and visual motor skills.…

The emergence of visual cortex specialization for culturally acquired characters like letters and digits, both arbitrary shapes related to specific cognitive domains, is yet unclear. Here, 20 young children (6.12 years old) were tested with a frequency-tagging paradigm coupled with electroencephalogram recordings to assess discrimination responses…