Longitudinal patterns of change in eye–hand coordination in children aged 8–16 years

•First longitudinal study examining the development of eye–hand coordination.•Eye–hand coordination assessed using a practical, easy-to-administer test.•Boy’s eye–hand coordination is consistently better than girls. Enhanced eye–hand coordination (EHC) is associated with greater participation in phy...

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Published in:Human movement science 2015-10, Vol.43, p.61-66
Main Authors: Wicks, Lennon J., Telford, Rohan M., Cunningham, Ross B., Semple, Stuart J., Telford, Richard D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Child
Child Development
Coordination
Development
Female
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Motor Skills
Neuropsychological Tests
Object control
Orientation
Physical activity
Psychomotor Performance
Reference Values
Sex Factors
Spatial Learning
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Summary:•First longitudinal study examining the development of eye–hand coordination.•Eye–hand coordination assessed using a practical, easy-to-administer test.•Boy’s eye–hand coordination is consistently better than girls. Enhanced eye–hand coordination (EHC) is associated with greater participation in physical activity. No longitudinal studies have examined the change in throw–catch EHC from childhood to mid-adolescence. We investigated the development of EHC with an object control test from childhood to mid-adolescence in boys and girls. Evaluated at age 8, 10, 12 and 16years, EHC was measured as the aggregate success rate of a throw and wall-rebound catch test. The test involved 40 attempts of progressive increasing difficulty, as determined by increased distances from a wall and transitions from two-handed to one-handed catches. Outcomes were treated as quasi-binomial and modelled by generalised linear mixed logistic regression analysis. EHC improved with age from childhood to mid-adolescence, although boys were more adept at each age (p
ISSN:0167-9457
1872-7646
DOI:10.1016/j.humov.2015.07.002