OBJECTIVE In order to effectively promote physical activity (PA) during childhood, and across the lifespan, a better understanding of the role of early motor skill development on child and adult PA is needed. METHODS Here, we propose a conceptual model delineating the hypothesized influence of motor skill development on child and adult PA, while providing an overview of the current empirical ...

Pless, M. 2001. Developmental co-ordination disorder in pre-school children. Effects of motor skill intervention, parents’ descriptions, and short-term follow-up of motor status. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1010. 43 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-4963-8. This investigation was undertaken to examine effects of motor skil...

BIOLOGICALLY-BASED FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS OF MOTOR SKILL ACQUISITION

The purpose was to determine the level of agreement between the Motoriktest für Vier- bis Sechsjährige Kinder [MOT 4-6] and the Movement Assessment Battery for Children [M-ABC]. 48 preschool children participated in the study (Mean age = 5 years, 6 months, SD = 3 months). There was high classification agreement (90%) between both tests. A Kappa correlation coefficient (0.67) provided moderately...

Introduction: Movement competence is defined as the development of sufficient skill and ability to assure successful performance in a variety of physical activities. Minor motor delays and/or low movement competence in childhood lead to low participation in physical activity, with consequent increased risk of obesity, cardiorespiratory and mental health outcomes [1]. Despite a high global atten...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this paper was to investigate whether perceived sports competence mediates the relationship between childhood motor skill proficiency and subsequent adolescent physical activity and fitness. METHODS In 2000, children's motor skill proficiency was assessed as part of a school-based physical activity intervention. In 2006/07, participants were followed up as part of th...

Why are performance trade-offs so rarely detected in animals when their underlying physiological basis seems so intuitive? One possibility is that individual variation in health, fitness, nutrition, development or genetics, or 'individual quality', makes some individuals better or worse performers across all motor tasks. If this is the case, then correcting for individual quality should reveal ...

Transfer (i.e., the application of a learned skill in a novel context) is an important and desirable outcome of motor skill learning. While much research has been devoted to understanding transfer of explicit skills the mechanisms of skill transfer after incidental learning remain poorly understood. The aim of this study was to (1) examine the effect of practice schedule on transfer and (2) inv...