Martzog, Philipp and Suggate, Sebastian Paul (2019) Fine motor skills and mental imagery: Is it all in the mind? JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY, 186. pp. 59-72. ISSN 0022-0965, 1096-0457
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Previous work has indicated that children's fine motor skills (FMS) contribute to cognitive performance in a number of domains. A philosophically and scientifically central aspect of cognitive skill is the ability to mentally simulate external events; however, very little research has examined whether FMS relate to mental imagery. Children aged 35-129 months (N = 294) were administered measures of FMS and mental imagery. Control variables included working memory, vocabulary, visual closure, chronological age, and a vast array of stimulus lexical features. Multilevel linear models indicated that FMS uniquely predicted mental imagery abilities, as did visual closure, chronological age, and various lexical features, whereas working memory and vocabulary did not. Findings are taken to support the idea that both mental imagery and FMS share, in part, similar functional systems. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; SCHOOL READINESS; PERFORMANCE; LANGUAGE; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; INFORMATION; ACHIEVEMENT; CHILDREN; FMRI; Fine motor skills; Mental imagery; Embodied cognition; Grounded cognition; Mental simulation |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 370 Education |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Pädagogik Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Pädagogik > Lehrstuhl für Schulpädagogik (Prof. Dr. Heidrun Stöger) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2020 08:51 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2020 08:51 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/26199 |
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