Mastering motor skills is important for children to achieve functional mobility and participate
in daily activities. Some studies have identified that students with specific learning disorders …

The well-documented association between fingers and numbers is not only based on the
observation that most children use their fingers for counting and initial calculation, but also …

Being physically active plays an essential role in a child's physical development. While there
is ample evidence for a positive association between physical activity (PA) and motor skills …

We examine a potential mechanism underlying the relation between executive function (EF)
skills and mathematics achievement in early childhood. Across two samples of three-to six …

The relationship between motor skills and executive functions (EFs) is gaining prominence
in the field of developmental psychology. However, evidence of the motor skills–EFs link in …

What are the foundational abilities that young children must develop at the beginning of
school for their future academic success? Little is known about how emotion knowledge …

The aim of the present study is to examine the effect of group-play intervention on executive
function (EF) in preschoolers. This group-play intervention was integrated as moderate to …

Fine motor skills (FMS) are fundamental for children's growth, influencing their writing
progress and everyday activities. However, the development of these skills is a multifaceted …

Finger gnosia and fine motor skills (FMS) are assumed to play a key role in the development
of arithmetic abilities, but their contribution to early numerical skills (ie, enumeration skills …

Finding predictors of academic achievement has caught the interest of many educational
researchers in the last decades. Two of the variables that have received considerable …