Characterizing human movement is essential for understanding movement disorders,
evaluating progress in rehabilitation, or even analyzing how a person adapts to the use of …

Background: Handwriting is an important activity for people of all ages. Handwriting is
frequently affected after stroke and other neurological conditions. However, research on the …

Handwriting difficulties or dysgraphia have a profound impact on children's psychosocial
development, and yet, 10–30% of school-aged children are reported to experience …

Many of our cognitive capacities are the result of enculturation. Enculturation is the
temporally extended transformative acquisition of cognitive practices in the cognitive niche …

We analyzed the adaptability of human thumb and index finger movement kinematics and
dynamics to variations of precision grip aperture and movement velocity. Six subjects …

Strategies used by the CNS to optimize arm movements in terms of speed, accuracy, and
resistance to fatigue remain largely unknown. A hypothesis is studied that the CNS exploits …

School-aged children spend 31–60% of their time at school performing handwriting, which is
a complex perceptual-motor skill composed of a coordinated combination of fine …

Characteristics of control at the shoulder and elbow during nine types of drawing
movements were studied in the present work. The task was to repetitively track a template …

The authors investigated coordination modes that emerged as a function of the interaction
between skill level and task constraints in a multiarticular kicking action. Five skilled, 5 …

We investigated the combined effects of orthographic and graphomotor constraints as a
function of handwriting proficiency in children. Twenty-four first graders, 20 third graders …