The Contributions of Motor Skill Proficiency to Cognitive and Social Development in Early Childhood

• Main Authors: Capio, Catherine M, Mendoza, Norman B., Jones, Rachel A., Masters, Rich S.W., Lee, Kerry
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Behaviours; Early childhood; Executive function; Object control; Social competence; Behavioral Medicine; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Medicine and Health Sciences; Pediatrics
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/hs-faculty-pubs/64; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/hs-faculty-pubs/article/1063/viewcontent/s41598_024_79538_1.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

With limited evidence from intervention studies, causal relationships between motor competence and cognitive and social development have yet to be clearly established. In this research, we investigated whether a targeted training programme to improve fundamental movement skills (i.e., object control...