motor development, coordination, typically developing children, variability, exploration
Conditions
Interventions
No intervention is aplied.
Sponsors
University Medical Center Groningen
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Only healthy children between five and ten years of age and healthy adults will be included in the experiment. Participants are considered eligible for inclusion in the case of absence of any upper or lower extremity pain or musculoskeletal impairments negatively affecting task performance. Furthermore participants need to be right dominant for the upper extremity and sign an informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Children will be excluded when motor skill abilities, established by the Movement ABC-2 test, are below norms for age.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| -kinematic measures of the reaching movement of the tip of the index finger -joint ranges of motion -uncontrolled manifold analyses | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Anthropometric data (body length, arm length and weight) Movement-ABC test | — |
Contacts
Public ContactLaura Golenia
Centre for Human Movement Science, UMCG
Outcome results
None listed