ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
An update of the development of motor behavior.
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- Visual Sensitivities in Toddlers' Hands Provide a Foundation for Shape Perception.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Quantifying Visuomotor Maturation From Middle Childhood to Adolescence.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Developmental and dynamic systems: insights for sex/gender research.Biology of sex differences · 2026Review
- Relationship Between Out-of-School Physical Activity, Physical Growth and the Development of Motor Skills.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Throwing like a girl: a critique of past approaches and an illustrated proposal for a path forward.Biology of sex differences · 2025Review
- Development and validation of the motor measures in the NIH Baby Toolbox®.Infant behavior & development · 2025Article
- Early gross motor performance is associated with concurrent prelinguistic and social development.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Postnatal dependency as the foundation of social learning in humans.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Sitting Acquisition and Early Communication Development: Are There Associations in Very Preterm Infants at Six Months of Corrected Age?Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
This primer describes research on the development of motor behavior. We focus on infancy when basic action systems are acquired-posture, locomotion, manual actions, and facial actions-and we adopt a developmental systems perspective to understand the causes and consequences of developmental change. Experience facilitates improvements in motor behavior and infants accumulate immense amounts of varied everyday experience with all the basic action systems. At every point in development, perception guides behavior by providing feedback about the results of just prior movements and information about what to do next. Across development, new motor behaviors provide new inputs for perception. Thus, motor development opens up new opportunities for acquiring knowledge and acting on the world, instigating cascades of developmental changes in perceptual, cognitive, and social domains. This article is categorized under: Cognitive Biology > Cognitive Development Psychology > Motor Skill and Performance Neuroscience > Development.
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