All Outputs (2)

Improvement in children’s fine motor skills following a computerized typing intervention (2017)
Journal Article
McGlashan, H. L., Blanchard, C. C., Sycamore, N. J., Lee, R., French, B., & Holmes, N. P. (in press). Improvement in children’s fine motor skills following a computerized typing intervention. Human Movement Science, 56(B), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2017.10.013

Children spend a large proportion of their school day engaged in tasks that require manual dexterity. If children experience difficulties with their manual dexterity skills it can have a consequential effect on their academic achievement. The first a... Read More about Improvement in children’s fine motor skills following a computerized typing intervention.

Online control of prehension predicts performance on a standardised motor assessment test in 8-12 year old children (2017)
Journal Article
Blanchard, C. C., McGlashan, H. L., French, B., Sperring, R. J., Petrocochino, B., & Holmes, N. P. (2017). Online control of prehension predicts performance on a standardised motor assessment test in 8-12 year old children. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 374. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00374

Goal-directed hand movements are guided by sensory information and may be adjusted 'online', during the movement. If the target of a movement unexpectedly changes position, trajectory corrections can be initiated in as little as 100ms in adults. This... Read More about Online control of prehension predicts performance on a standardised motor assessment test in 8-12 year old children.