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Educating the Adult Brain: How the Neuroscience of Learning Can Inform Educational Policy
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Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Thomas, Michael S. C. – International Review of Education, 2014
The acquisition of new skills in adulthood can positively affect an individual's quality of life, including their earning potential. In some cases, such as the learning of literacy in developing countries, it can provide an avenue to escape from poverty. In developed countries, job retraining in adulthood contributes to the flexibility of…
Descriptors: Adults, Neurosciences, Skill Development, Scientific Research
Human Fetal Behavior: 100 Years of Study.
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Kisilevsky, B. S.; Low, J. A. – Developmental Review, 1998
Reviews literature on human fetal behavior. Includes descriptions of coupling of body movements and fetal heart rate and behavior maturation from conception to term. Discusses use of stimulus-induced behavior to examine sensory and cognitive development, and spontaneous and stimulus-induced behavior to assess fetal well-being. Notes research focus…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Heart Rate, Individual Development
Age and Sex Differences in Motor Performance of 3 Through 6 Year Old Children.
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Morris, Arlene M.; And Others – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1982
Children from three to six years of age were tested to determine the relationship of age and sex to motor performance. Tests involved balancing, scrambling, catching, speed running, long jumping, and ball throwing. Although significant age and sex differences were found, it appeared that age generally was more closely related to performance than…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Motor Development
The Effects of Aging on Motor Performance.
Kleinman, Matthew – 1982
A review of research on the effects of aging on motor performance provided evidence that age-induced changes within the central nervous system, particularly in the functioning of the non-dominant cortical hemisphere, result in diminished fluid abilities. The loss was most clearly manifested behaviorally as a decreased capacity to perform…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Individual Differences, Motor Development
Development of the Overarm Throw: Movement and Ball Velocity Changes by Seventh Grade.
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Halverson, Lolas E.; And Others – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1982
To clarify patterns in the rate of motor development, children observed between kindergarten and second grade were refilmed, performing an overarm throw, when they became seventh-grade students. Results were compared with predictions made earlier. Differences in the skill levels of boys and girls and differences in their throwing experience are…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Elementary Education, Grade 7
Age Differences on a Coincident Anticipation Task: "Preferred" Movement Speed and Response Strategy Use.
Williams, Kathleen – 1983
An investigation examined the use of "preferred speeds" by young children in their response to a timing task. Three groups of boys, 5, 7, and 9 years old, made a simple horizontal arm movement that would end with contacting a microswitch at the same time a light reached the end of the runway. One stimulus traveled at the individual's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Eye Hand Coordination, Motor Development