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Peer reviewedGetchell, Nancy; Whitall, Jill – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Compared coupling characteristics of clapping simultaneous with walking or galloping, consistency across trials, and phasing variability among 4-, 6-, 8-, and 10-year-olds. Found that for walk/clap tasks, children adopted adult-like coupling patterns by age 8 and with the same consistency by age 10. Across age, children became less variable in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children, Cognitive Development
