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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 81, Issue 6, Pages 1846-1858Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01514.x
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- NICHD NIH HHS [R37 HD027714] Funding Source: Medline
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Kinematic measures of children's reaching were found to reflect stable differences in skill level for planning for future actions. Thirty-five toddlers (18-21 months) were engaged in building block towers (precise task) and in placing blocks into an open container (imprecise task). Sixteen children were retested on the same tasks a year later. Longer deceleration as the hand approached the block for pickup was found in the tower task compared with the imprecise task, indicating planning for the second movement. More skillful toddlers who could build high towers had a longer deceleration phase when placing blocks on the tower than toddlers who built low towers. Kinematic differences between the groups remained a year later when all children could build high towers.
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