Citation

Niechwiej-Szwedo E, Meier K, Christian L, Nouredanesh M, Tung J, Bryden P, Giaschi DE. Dev. Psychobiol. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/dev.21931

PMID

31621075

Abstract

Perceptual and visuomotor skills undergo considerable development from early childhood into adolescence; however, the concurrent maturation of these skills has not yet been examined. This study assessed visuomotor function and motion perception in a cross-section of 226 typically-developing children between 4 and 16 years of age. Participants were tested on three tasks hypothesized to engage the dorsal visual stream: threading a bead on a needle, marking dots using a pen, and discriminating form defined by motion contrast. Mature performance was reached between 8 and 12 years, with youngest maturation for kinematic measures for a reach-to-grasp task, and oldest maturation for a precision tapping task. Performance on the motion perception task shared no association with motor skills after controlling for age.

© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Language: en

Keywords

fine motor skills; hand-eye coordination; motion-defined form; stereoacuity; vision