Cognitive-Motor Interactions: The Relationship of Infant Gross Motor Attainment to IQ at 3 Years

The relationship of gross motor development to later cognitive status was assessed by comparing the ages of attainment of four early milestones to later performance on the Stanford Binet. The ages of rolling supine to prone, sitting alone, crawling, and walking were collected in a prospective fashio...

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Published in:Clinical pediatrics 1985-12, Vol.24 (12), p.671-675
Main Authors: Capute, Arnold J., Shapiro, Bruce K., Palmer, Frederick B., Ross, Alan, Wachtel, Renee C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Child clinical studies
Child Development
Child, Preschool
Cognition
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Medical sciences
Motor Skills
Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology
Prospective Studies
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Social Class
Stanford-Binet Test
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Summary:The relationship of gross motor development to later cognitive status was assessed by comparing the ages of attainment of four early milestones to later performance on the Stanford Binet. The ages of rolling supine to prone, sitting alone, crawling, and walking were collected in a prospective fashion via parental report for 213 Caucasian children. Stanford Binet IQ was measured at 3 years. Significant but low-order correlations were noted for age of milestone and Stanford Binet IQ. Stratifying the sample by IQ standard deviation groups revealed significant relationships, but this was largely the result of the difference between the extreme groups (117 vs. 85). Children with earlier ages of milestone attainment did not have higher IQs on average. The association of gross motor development and cognition is not strong enough to allow the use of one to predict the other.
ISSN:0009-9228
1938-2707
DOI:10.1177/000992288502401201