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ReviewAnnual review of psychology2019

Motor Development: Embodied, Embedded, Enculturated, and Enabling.

Karen E Adolph, Justine E Hoch

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Review in Annual review of psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05307523 (Up and Down), which is not on this map. Cited by 237 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05307523 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Up and Down: Use of Dynamic Partial Body Weight Support Play Environment to Encourage Upright Mobility and Exploration in Infants With Down Syndrome (DS)

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of WashingtonRan2022 to 2023Enrolled17ConditionsDown Syndrome, Trisomy 21ArmsEnriched Play Environment with Partial Body Weight Support Harness, Enriched Play Environment without Partial Body Weight Support Harness
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

237 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Karen E AdolphDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA; email: karen.adolph@nyu.edu.
Justine E HochDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA; email: karen.adolph@nyu.edu.

Funding

Flexibility of Learning in Infant Skill AcquisitionR37HD033486 · NICHD · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI ADOLPH, KAREN E · 2006 to 2015
$4.9M
Flexibility of Learning in Infant Skill AcquisitionR01HD033486 · NICHD · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI ADOLPH, KAREN E · 2001 to 2023
$4.5M
Learning About Hidden AffordancesR01HD086034 · NICHD · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI ADOLPH, KAREN E, TAMIS-LEMONDA, CATHERINE S · 2016 to 2020
$2.1M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD033486NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD086034NICHD NIH HHS R37 HD033486
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motor development and psychological development are fundamentally related, but researchers typically consider them separately. In this review, we present four key features of infant motor development and show that motor skill acquisition both requires and reflects basic psychological functions. ( a) Motor development is embodied: Opportunities for action depend on the current status of the body. ( b) Motor development is embedded: Variations in the environment create and constrain possibilities for action. ( c) Motor development is enculturated: Social and cultural influences shape motor behaviors. ( d) Motor development is enabling: New motor skills create new opportunities for exploration and learning that instigate cascades of development across diverse psychological domains. For each of these key features, we show that changes in infants' bodies, environments, and experiences entail behavioral flexibility and are thus essential to psychology. Moreover, we suggest that motor development is an ideal model system for the study of psychological development.

Indexed as

CultureChild DevelopmentExploratory BehaviorHumansInfantInfant BehaviorLearningMotor ActivityMotor Skillsculturedevelopmental cascadeexplorationinfantlocomotionreaching

Identifiers

PMID30256718
PMCPMC6320716

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