Alex Fedde Kalverboer / Brian Hopkins / Reint Geuze (eds.)

Motor Development in Early and Later Childhood

Longitudinal Approaches
Herausgeber: Geuze, Reint; Kalverboer, Alex F.; Hopkins, Brian

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Produktbeschreibung

Motor development is an integral part of the developmental process. Understanding the organization of the sensory-motor system and its adaptations in response to environmental factors is a vital part of understanding individual development as a whole. This volume describes and discusses human motor development using longitudinal study methods, and from an interdisciplinary perspective. Researchers from a variety of different backgrounds and disciplines provide a broad-ranging analysis of human motor development, from both the practical and theoretical standpoint, in a book which will be of great interest to paediatricians, psychologists, developmental biologists, developmental psychiatrists and neurologists as well as to research scientists in these fields.

Table of contents:
List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I. Setting The Scene: 1. Motor development in children at risk: two decades of research in experimental clinical psychology A. F. Kalverboer; 2. Longitudinal studies in motor development: developmental neurological considerations B. C. L. Touwen; Part II. Biological Basis of Motor Development: 3. Principles of early motor development in the human H. F. R. Prechtl; Natural priorities for developmental study: neuroembryological perspectives of motor development R. R. Provine; 5. The 'fixed action pattern' concept revisited: an ethological commentary on the chapters by Prechtl and Provine G. P. Baerends and T. G. G. Groothuis; Part III. Development of Body Posture and Goal Directed Reaching: 6. Early postnatal development of posture control: normal and abnormal aspects M. H. Wollacott; 7. Studying the development of goal-directed behaviour C. von Hofsten; 8. Development of motor functions: a 'developmental neurological' approach P. Casaer; Part IV. Motor Development, Early Communication and Cognition: 9. Early interactional signalling: the role of facial movements H. Papousek and M. Papousek; 10. Motor development: communication and cognition G. Butterworth and F. Franco; 11. On faces and hands and the development of communication B. Hopkins; Part V. Acquisition Of Skills: 12. Individual patterns of tool use by infants K. Connolly and M. Dalgleshi; 13. Tool use, hand cooperation and the development of object manipulation in human and non-human primates J. Vauclair; 14. Handwriting: a developmental perspective G. P. Van Galen; 15. Development of children's writing performance: some educational implications N. Søvik; Part IV. Motor Development and Handicap: 16. Early motor development in term and preterm children R. H. Largo, S. Kundu and L. Thun-Hohenstein; 17. Relationship between perinatal risk factors and motor development at the ages of 5 and 9 years K. Michelsson and E. Lindahl; 18. Motor development and minor handicap S. E. Henderson; 19. Longitudinal and cross-sectional approaches in experimental studies in motor development R. H. Geuze; Part VII. Methodological and Conceptual Considerations: 20. The longitudinal study of motor development: methodological issues W. Schneider; 21. Theoretical issues in the longitudinal study of motor development B. Hopkins, P. J. Beek and A. F. Kalverboer; Epilogue: description versus explanation B. Hopkins, A. F. Kalverboer and R. H. Geuze; Index.

Motor development is an integral part of the developmental process. Understanding the organization of the sensory-motor system and its adaptations in response to environmental factors is a vital part of understanding individual development as a whole. This volume describes and discusses human motor development using longitudinal study methods, and from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Researchers from a variety of different backgrounds and disciplines provide a broad-ranging analysis of human motor development, from both a practical and theoretical perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 806g
• ISBN-13: 9780521401012
• ISBN-10: 0521401011
• Artikelnr.: 21233594

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part I. Setting The Scene: 1.
Motor development in children at risk: two decades of research in
experimental clinical psychology A. F. Kalverboer; 2. Longitudinal studies
in motor development: developmental neurological considerations B. C. L.
Touwen; Part II. Biological Basis of Motor Development: 3. Principles of
early motor development in the human H. F. R. Prechtl; Natural priorities
for developmental study: neuroembryological perspectives of motor
development R. R. Provine; 5. The 'fixed action pattern' concept revisited:
an ethological commentary on the chapters by Prechtl and Provine G. P.
Baerends and T. G. G. Groothuis; Part III. Development of Body Posture and
Goal Directed Reaching: 6. Early postnatal development of posture control:
normal and abnormal aspects M. H. Wollacott; 7. Studying the development of
goal-directed behaviour C. von Hofsten; 8. Development of motor functions:
a 'developmental neurological' approach P. Casaer; Part IV. Motor
Development, Early Communication and Cognition: 9. Early interactional
signalling: the role of facial movements H. Papousek and M. Papousek; 10.
Motor development: communication and cognition G. Butterworth and F.
Franco; 11. On faces and hands and the development of communication B.
Hopkins; Part V. Acquisition Of Skills: 12. Individual patterns of tool use
by infants K. Connolly and M. Dalgleshi; 13. Tool use, hand cooperation and
the development of object manipulation in human and non-human primates J.
Vauclair; 14. Handwriting: a developmental perspective G. P. Van Galen; 15.
Development of children's writing performance: some educational
implications N. Søvik; Part IV. Motor Development and Handicap: 16. Early
motor development in term and preterm children R. H. Largo, S. Kundu and L.
Thun-Hohenstein; 17. Relationship between perinatal risk factors and motor
development at the ages of 5 and 9 years K. Michelsson and E. Lindahl; 18.
Motor development and minor handicap S. E. Henderson; 19. Longitudinal and
cross-sectional approaches in experimental studies in motor development R.
H. Geuze; Part VII. Methodological and Conceptual Considerations: 20. The
longitudinal study of motor development: methodological issues W.
Schneider; 21. Theoretical issues in the longitudinal study of motor
development B. Hopkins, P. J. Beek and A. F. Kalverboer; Epilogue:
description versus explanation B. Hopkins, A. F. Kalverboer and R. H.
Geuze; Index.