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Martzog, Philipp; Stoeger, Heidrun; Suggate, Sebastian – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019
An increasing number of findings suggest that cognition is grounded in sensorimotor experiences. Research suggests that fine motor skills (FMS) link to cognitive abilities. Existing studies, however, lack conceptual and methodological differentiation regarding FMS and little is known about the directional nature of links. In study 1, we measured…
Descriptors: Correlation, Preschool Children, Psychomotor Skills, Foreign Countries
Punamäki, Raija-Leena; Vänskä, Mervi; Quota, Samir R.; Perko, Kaisa; Diab, Safwat Y. – Infant and Child Development, 2020
Maternal singing is considered vital to infant well-being. This study focuses on vocal emotion expressions in infant-directed singing among mothers in war conditions. It examines the questions: (a) how traumatic war events and mental health problems are associated with the content and valence of vocal emotion expressions and (b) how these emotion…
Descriptors: Infants, Singing, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Woods, Adam J.; Philbeck, John W.; Danoff, Jerome V. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
D. R. Proffitt and colleagues (e. g., D. R. Proffitt, J. Stefanucci, T. Banton, & W. Epstein, 2003) have suggested that objects appear farther away if more effort is required to act upon them (e.g., by having to throw a ball). The authors attempted to replicate several findings supporting this view but found no effort-related effects in a variety…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception, Dimensional Preference
Sarama, Julie; Clements, Douglas H. – American Journal of Play, 2009
The authors explore how children's play can support the development of the foundations of mathematics learning and how adults can support children's representation of--and thus the "mathematization" of--their play. The authors review research about the amount and nature of mathematics found in the free play of children. They briefly…
Descriptors: Play, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Mathematics Skills
Perry, Lynn K.; Smith, Linda B.; Hockema, Stephen A. – Developmental Science, 2008
Recent research has shown that 2-year-olds fail at a task that ostensibly only requires the ability to understand that solid objects cannot pass through other solid objects. Two experiments were conducted in which 2- and 3-year-olds judged the stopping point of an object as it moved at varying speeds along a path and behind an occluder, stopping…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cognitive Development, Motion, Child Development

Hood, Bruce; Carey, Susan; Prasada, Sandeep – Child Development, 2000
Examined in 4 experiments 2-year-olds' knowledge of solidity in search tasks. Found no evidence that 2-year-olds represented solidity and support constraints on trajectories of falling objects; two experiments included 2.5-year-olds who succeeded on search tasks. Explored implications of 2-year-olds' poor performance in light of very young…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Knowledge Level, Perceptual Motor Learning
Caruso, David A. – 1984
Infants' exploration of their environment has been considered by Piaget and others to provide a vehicle for cognitive development. Little research, however, has examined in detail what infants actually do while exploring or how exploratory behavior is related to other aspects of cognitive functioning. The present investigation was designed to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Exploratory Behavior, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior

Kirk, Ursula – Child Development, 1981
A pre- to post-test design was used to evaluate the effects of rule-based instruction on rule observance, copying performance, and discrimination skill. Three ways of imparting rules (demonstration, verbal description, and combined demonstration-verbal description) were examined, and their usefulness was compared to that of copying without…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Handwriting Instruction, Handwriting Skills, Kindergarten Children

Miller, Jon F.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1980
A cross-sectional study of language comprehension in relation to cognitive functioning in 48 10-to 21-month-old children, four at each month of age, revealed significant correlations between comprehension and five sensorimotor subscales. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Developmental Stages
Chasiotis, Athanasios; Kiessling, Florian; Winter, Vera; Hofer, Jan – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2006
After distinguishing between neocortical abilities for executive control and subcortical sensory motor skills for proprioceptive and vestibular integration, we compare a sample of 116 normal preschoolers with a sample of 31 preschoolers receiving occupational therapeutical treatment. This is done in an experimental design controlled for age (mean:…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Perceptual Motor Learning, Sensory Integration, Preschool Children

Sigman, Marian; Ungerer, Judy – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1981
The fact that the autistic children were so impaired in language even with fairly good sensorimotor skills suggests that these skills, particularly object permanence, play a minor role in their language acquisition. (Author)
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition

Light, P. H.; MacIntosh, E. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Young children drew two opaque objects placed one behind the other. Over two-thirds of the children drew the objects separately in horizontal or vertical relationships. When drawing an object in a glass beaker, half of the children depicted the object vertically or horizontally separate from the beaker. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Cognitive Development, Cues, Depth Perception

Diamond, Adele; Lee, Eun Young – Child Development, 2000
Examined infants' ability to retrieve an object from atop a slightly larger object. Found that even 5-month-olds could retrieve objects close in size and fully contiguous with their bases when demands on reaching skill were reduced. Proposed that when they fail this task, it is because they lack the skill to reach the top object without…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior, Infants, Motor Development
Dores, Paul A. – 1982
The relationship between sensorimotor performance and communicative ability in 18 autistic children (40 to 108 months old) was studied. The children were administered the Means-End and Operational Causality scales from the Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development. In addition, the Ss were assessed on four measures of verbal and nonverbal…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills

Kavale, Kenneth; Mattson, P. Dennis – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1983
The study reports the findings of a meta-analysis, the application of statistical methods of data synthesis from individual studies, reviewing 180 studies assessing the efficacy of perceptual motor training. Perceptual motor training was not found to be an effective intervention technique for improving academic, cognitive, or perceptual motor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities