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Cerebellum (9)3 2010
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Structural changes of the cerebellum have been reported in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in several studies. The cerebellum is a structure essential for motor coordination and motor learning. Beside behavioral deficits, children with ADHD often show slight motor abnormalities. In t...
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PMID: 20480275
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Memory & Cognition (38)6 2010
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We start to write them. The results therefore revealed that orthographic representations also encode information on grapheme complexity....
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PMID: 20852239
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The safe prescribing, use, administration, and monitoring of medications are an important component of patient safety efforts and are of particular importance to the obstetrician/gynecologist. Safe use of medications requires a team-based approach focused on medication safety with effective 2-way co...
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PMID: 20661034
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We investigate its parameterization and compare it to SVM with other kernel functions such as dynamic time warping (DTW). Our experiments show that SVM with the LCSS kernel authenticate persons very reliably and with a performance which is significantly better than that of the best comparing techniq...
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PMID: 19906588
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Science & Justice (50)2 2010
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This article compares the skill with which a large sample of Arabic writers was able to simulate different handwriting elements in two Arabic signatures. The data agree with the consensus of experts about Roman script: Form is significantly better simulated than Proportion, and Proportion is signifi...
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PMID: 20470739
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Two experiments examined training on a prospective time production task. Participants produced intervals, expressed in fixed arbitrary units, while performing a concurrent secondary task. After a 15-min filled delay, the participants were retrained on the same tasks. These experiments tested whether...
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PMID: 20436206
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Primary Dental Care (17)2 2010
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The findings indicate a need to improve the amount of information provided in referrals to the sedation department of Newcastle Dental Hospital in order to ensure appropriate allocation to sedation services. The quality of referrals may be improved by the distribution of referral guidelines, the use...
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PMID: 20353657
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At each grade level, except for handwriting and composing in 6th grade, the word-level working memory factor contributed unique variance to each reading and writing outcome. The text-level working memory factor contributed unique variance to reading comprehension in 4th and 6th grade. DISCUSSION: Th...
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PMID: 19755637
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Computerised proformas reduce variability between different operation reports for the same procedure and increase their content in line with RCSE recommendations. The proformas also constitute a more robust means of operative documentation....
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PMID: 19995491
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The purpose of this study was to characterize handwriting deficits in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) using computerized movement analyses.
Seventy-two children (40 females, 32 males; mean age 7 y, SD 7 mo; range 6 y 2 mo to 7 y 11 mo) with han...
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PMID: 20002122
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Sao Paulo Medical Journal (128)2 2010
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CONTEXT: Writer's cramp is a kind of focal hand dystonia that appears when individuals are writing. Since pharmacological treatment has not shown the desired therapeutic response, a study on immobilization of the damaged musculature was performed on two individuals with writer's cramp, using splints...
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PMID: 20676577
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This study aimed to investigate the effect of a computerized visual perception and visual-motor integration training program to enhance Chinese handwriting performance among children with learning difficulties, particularly those with handwriting problems. Participants were 26 primary-one children w...
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PMID: 20621444
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Organizational ability constitutes one executive function (EF) component essential for common everyday performance. The study aim was to explore the relationship between handwriting performance and organizational ability in school-aged children. Participants were 58 males, aged 7-8 years, 30 with dy...
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PMID: 19945252
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We follow and compare clinical, psychopathological changes with the graphic ones based on dynamic psychopathologic processes. The material collected over 60 years consists of 85714 drawings, with 4710 series, including extended time observation of more than 10 years with 454 patients. Contrary to pr...
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PMID: 20938056
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All six assessment subscales showed statistically significant differences. Legibility improved by a mean of 4.1 points (95% confidence interval = 2.5 to 5.7); form, 5.3 points; alignment, 7.8 points; size, 7.9 points; and space, 5.3 points. Speed decreased by 3.9 points. CONCLUSION: Preliminary evid...
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PMID: 20131562
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Although handwriting and keyboarding speed were moderately correlated, these activities did not share underlying performance skills. In addition, different correlation patterns between written communication modes and performance skills were found among slow and fast keyboarders. CONCLUSION: Results...
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PMID: 20131572
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Total Letter scores were most reliable; more variability should be expected for Total Word scores. Total Numeral scores showed unacceptable reliability levels and are not recommended. We found good discriminant validity for Letter and Word scores and established cutoff scores to distinguish children...
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PMID: 20131563
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Psychological Reports (105)3 Pt 2 2009
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The aim of the present work was to examine validity of the graphological method to assess personality traits. The results of two studies are described. In Study 1, the Big Five Questionnaire was administered to a sample of 101 university students who provided a sample of a handwritten text. Two grap...
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PMID: 20229925
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Perceptual and Motor Skills (109)3 2009
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To examine the discriminant validity of the Visual Motor Integration test in screening children with handwriting dysfunction, 599 children in Grade 2, including 41 children with handwriting dysfunction identified by their teachers and 558 typically developing children, were assessed. The Visual Moto...
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PMID: 20178277
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Medical Teacher (31)10 2009
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Medical Teacher (31)10 2009
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The interviews yielded four main aspects of the portfolio mentoring process--educational aims, individual meetings, small group sessions and mentor characteristics. Based on the questionnaire data, 16 undergraduate and 14 postgraduate programmes were described. Providing feedback and stimulating ref...
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PMID: 19877862
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Laterality (14)4 2009
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Hand preference for sending mobile-phone text messages (“texting”) and its relationship with hand preference for other activities were investigated in a questionnaire study with 886 participants. Overall rates of both sinistrality and dextrality were reduced for texting, in comparison with other...
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PMID: 19003623
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The present study determined whether the motor process of handwriting is influenced by a circadian rhythm during writing tasks of high everyday relevance and analyzed the relationship to the circadian rhythm of grip strength. Ten healthy young male subjects underwent a 40 h sleep-deprivation protoco...
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PMID: 19360497
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Handwriting is one of the most complex motor proficiencies and is a main scholastic assignment during childhood. Basic skills are required for penmanship such as viso-spatial coordination on top of cognitive abilities such as planning, organizing and reviewing the written text. Illegible handwriting...
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PMID: 19899253
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British Journal of Psychology (100)Pt 3 2009
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Pairs of actions such as write x throw and throw x racquet were examined for items of the Annett hand preference questionnaire (AHPQ). Right (R) and left (L) responses were described for frequencies of RR, RL, LR, and LL pairings (write x throw etc.) in a large representative combined sample with th...
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PMID: 18851767
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The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of cursive handwriting programs in improving letter legibility and form in third-grade students without identified handwriting problems. Four months into the school year, cursive handwriting was assessed for a sample of convenience of 50 third-grad...
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PMID: 19401930
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We timed the execution and simulation of a 'finger tap task' and a 'writing task' in 9 patients with simple WC and 9 matched healthy controls. In the 'finger tap task, patients tended to be slower than controls to execute without vision (p=0.190) and to simulate the movements (p=0.094). In the 'writ...
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PMID: 19623433
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The study results show there is a need for standardizing the prescription process and eliminating handwritten prescriptions. The use of pre-typed or edited prescriptions may reduce errors associated to high-alert medications....
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PMID: 19377749
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Perceptual and Motor Skills (108)3 2009
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This paper describes a pilot study investigating an assessment for Chinese handwriting performance. In an attempt to computerize the existing Tseng Handwriting Problem Checklist (Tseng Checklist), this study employed MATLAB to develop a computer program entitled the Chinese Handwriting Assessment Pr...
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PMID: 19725324
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Archives de Pédiatrie (16)4 2009
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Behavioural Brain Research (198)1 2009
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We investigated gender differences in motor performance in 9-, 12-, and 17-year-olds. The tasks included simple thumb tapping (sTT), handwriting (HW) and finger-to-thumb opposition sequence (FOS) learning. In sTT there was a significant advantage for the 17-year-old males. In HW, 12-year-old females...
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PMID: 19026692
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Applied Ergonomics (40)2 2009
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Two experiments are reported with the aim of determining the effect of pen shape and size on two different types of task: drawing and writing. Experiment 1 attempted to determine the optimum shape and size of shank for ball-point pens used to perform an accurate drawing task. Twenty-seven participan...
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PMID: 18501332
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We present a new analysis of our previously published corpus of handwriting errors (slips) using the proportional allocation algorithm of Machtynger and Shallice (2009). As previously, the proportion of slips is greater in the middle of the word than at the ends, however, in contrast to before, the...
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PMID: 19296299
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Revue Neurologique (165 Spec No 1) 2009
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Jornal de Pediatria (85)4 2009
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Statistically significant differences were found between both groups in terms of handwriting ability (p < 0.001). There was no significant difference regarding grip scores between children with cerebral palsy and healthy children (p > 0.05). We found that children with cerebral palsy had better perf...
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PMID: 19668910
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Neuroepidemiology (32)3 2009
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This study reports a significant ethnic difference in the prevalence of ET. The prevalence of ET was high overall (5.5%) and rose markedly with age so that in the oldest old, more than 1 in 5 individuals had this disease.
2009 S. Karger AG, Basel....
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PMID: 19169043
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The Dynamic Interactional Model was effective in improving self-care, mobility, and graphomotor abilities and identified awareness of deficits in these domains. CONCLUSION: These research findings contribute to our theoretical knowledge in rehabilitation and promote adopting this approach for rehabi...
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PMID: 19785254
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Psychiatria polska (43)2 2009
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The present article is a review of studies concerning graphomotor functions (handwriting) in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the stimulant-induced (methylphenidate) alterations of both qualitative and quantitative aspects of handwriting. This review indicates an int...
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PMID: 19697788
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Revue Neurologique (165)6-7 2009
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We report the case of a female steno secretary with nonsemantic reading capacity associated with severe aphasia caused by a left hemisphere ischemic stroke in Broca's area. Arguments in favor of a right hemisphere contribution to the reading ability are presented....
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PMID: 18950824
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Movement Disorders (23)16 2008
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We examined whether re-training needs to specifically focus on the task affected by dystonia. 21 patients with writer's cramp were randomly assigned to two types of re-training: One group of patients trained drawing and writing movements using a pen attached to the bottom of a finger splint. The sec...
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PMID: 18816801
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This study confirms that there are parallels between dyslexic children with language disorders and their dyslexic peers with intact language skills, at least in terms of their performance on reading and writing tests....
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PMID: 19057171
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43.5% of subjects were male, mean age 78.6, SD 0.43 years. There was no significant association between the objective sentence criteria, legibility or tone and measured cognitive ability or physical disability. However, estimates of intelligence from the MMSE written sentence correlated significantl...
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PMID: 18563868
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We propose a method of feature extraction for digit recognition that is inspired by vision research: a sparse-coding strategy and a local maximum operation. We show that our method, despite its simplicity, yields state-of-the-art classification results on a highly competitive digit-recognition bench...
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PMID: 19000969
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We sought to define the normal development of the kinematic parameters of fine motor movement and determine the influence of gender, laterality of handedness and extracurricular training on fine motor skills. One hundred and eighty-seven children and adolescents (mean age: 11.6 years (+/-S.D.: 3.58)...
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PMID: 18725285
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British Journal of Psychology (99)Pt 4 2008
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We conclude that the distribution of hand preferences in humans is discrete and not continuous....
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PMID: 18447970
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Neural Computation (20)10 2008
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We present a computational model of handwriting generation that highlights the role of BG. When PD conditions like reduced dopamine and altered dynamics of the subthalamic nucleus and globus pallidus externa subsystems are simulated, the handwriting produced by the model manifested characteristic PD...
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PMID: 18386983
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We assess the effect of "group academic detailing" to reduce writing drug name using brand name and short form in the drug prescriptions in a controlled study at two primary health care clinics in Negeri Sembilan. Five medical officers in Ampangan Health Clinic received an educational intervention c...
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PMID: 19385492
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We present an off-line cursive word recognition system based completely on neural networks: reading models and models of early visual processing. The first stage (normalization) preprocesses the input image in order to reduce letter position uncertainty; the second stage (feature extraction) is base...
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PMID: 18991364
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Sensory-motor dysfunctions are often associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI). This study suggests that deterioration in fine motor control and coordination characterizes sensory-motor deficiencies of AD and MCI. Nine patients with a clinical diagnosis of probable...
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PMID: 18280503
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Neurological Sciences (29)4 2008
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Semiquantitative analysis of handwriting may be a useful addition to the methods available for the posthumous evaluation of testamentary capacity....
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PMID: 18810601
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Science & Justice (48)3 2008
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Gurmukhi is a written script of the Punjabi language spoken by 104 million people worldwide. It has been previously shown in a study of Punjabi residents to contain several unique class characteristics. In this paper these class characteristics and others were analysed in both 1st generation and 2nd...
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PMID: 18953800
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It has previously been shown that forensic document examiners (FDEs) have expertise in providing opinions about whether questioned signatures are genuine or simulated. This study extends the exploration of FDE expertise by evaluating the performance of eight FDEs and 12 control subjects at identifyi...
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PMID: 18624887
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The authors studied whether the drawing variability in young children is best explicable by (a) demands on the explicit timing system, (b) an underdeveloped ability to control limb dynamics, or (c) both. The explicit timing demands were lower in continuous drawing in comparison with the discontinuou...
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PMID: 18782714
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These results provide strong evidence in support of the proposition that calligraphers are more skilled at simulating signatures than are lay people and can produce forgeries that some FHEs have difficulty detecting....
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PMID: 18703294
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Developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD) is a developmental disorder affecting motor co-ordination. The Diagnostics Statistics Manual-IV classification for DCD describes difficulties across a range of activities of daily living, impacting on everyday skills and academic performance in school. Rece...
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PMID: 18636403
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This study suggests that a Web-based recording program decreased timing error while causing no differences in the number of recorded or omitted events in a laboratory setting....
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PMID: 18660402
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To compare the efficacy of a directive visual motor intervention (DVMI) versus a nondirective supportive intervention (NDSI) on psychological-adjustment, self-esteem, and visuomotor-integration (VMI) skills in mainstream elementary school and kindergarten children. A total of 168 poor VMI children o...
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PMID: 18607527
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Neuroscience Letters (440)1 2008
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We compared the kinematics of actual performed and perceptual preferred handwriting movements. The two children's tasks were (1) to write the letter e on a digitizer (handwriting task) and (2) to adjust the velocity of an e displayed on a screen so that it would correspond to "their preferred veloci...
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PMID: 18547724
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