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Peer reviewedThomassen, Arnold J. W. M.; Teulings, Hans-Leo H. M. – Visible Language, 1979
The developing directional preferences in writing and drawing that were observed in subjects between four years of age and adulthood suggest that two semiindependent motor systems are involved in writing: one for rapid and nonfigurative tasks, the other--which occurs later--for precision and symbolic functions. (Author/GT)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
