Thinking, walking, talking: integratory motor and cognitive brain function

G Leisman, AA Moustafa, T Shafir - Frontiers in public health, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In this article, we argue that motor and cognitive processes are functionally related and most
likely share a similar evolutionary history. This is supported by clinical and neural data …

Maternal emotion and cognitive control capacities and parenting: A conceptual framework

AA Crandall, K Deater-Deckard, AW Riley - Developmental review, 2015 - Elsevier
Purpose Emerging evidence suggests that maternal emotion and cognitive control
capacities are critical to the development and maintenance of parenting practices and may …

Executive function

SM Carlson, PD Zelazo, S Faja - 2013 - academic.oup.com
Executive Function | The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, Vol. 1Body and Mind |
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The environment and susceptibility to schizophrenia

AS Brown - Progress in neurobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
In the present article the putative role of environmental factors in schizophrenia is reviewed
and synthesized. Accumulating evidence from recent studies suggests that environmental …

The role of early fine and gross motor development on later motor and cognitive ability

JP Piek, L Dawson, LM Smith, N Gasson - Human movement science, 2008 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to determine whether information obtained from measures of motor
performance taken from birth to 4 years of age predicted motor and cognitive performance of …

Cognitive-motor interactions of the basal ganglia in development

G Leisman, O Braun-Benjamin… - Frontiers in systems …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Neural circuits linking activity in anatomically segregated populations of neurons in
subcortical structures and the neocortex throughout the human brain regulate complex …

The relationship between gross motor skills and academic achievement in children with learning disabilities

M Westendorp, E Hartman, S Houwen, J Smith… - Research in …, 2011 - Elsevier
The present study compared the gross motor skills of 7-to 12-year-old children with learning
disabilities (n= 104) with those of age-matched typically developing children (n= 104) using …

On the relationship between motor performance and executive functioning in children with intellectual disabilities

E Hartman, S Houwen, E Scherder… - Journal of Intellectual …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Background It has been suggested that children with intellectual disabilities (ID) have motor
problems and higher‐order cognitive deficits. The aim of this study was to examine the motor …

The relation between cognitive and motor performance and their relevance for children's transition to school: A latent variable approach

CM Roebers, M Röthlisberger… - Human movement …, 2014 - Elsevier
Both theoretically and empirically there is a continuous interest in understanding the specific
relation between cognitive and motor development in childhood. In the present longitudinal …

Variation and variability: key words in human motor development

M Hadders-Algra - Physical therapy, 2010 - academic.oup.com
This article reviews developmental processes in the human brain and basic principles
underlying typical and atypical motor development. The Neuronal Group Selection Theory is …