Motor-reduced visual perceptual abilities and visual-motor integration abilities of Chinese learning children

Lai, MY; Leung, FKS

Motor-reduced visual perceptual abilities and visual-motor integration abilities of Chinese learning children

Lai, MY Leung, FKS

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Human Movement Science, 2012, 31 (5), pp. 1328 - 1339
Issue Date:: 2012-10-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Lai, MY	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Leung, FKS	en_US
dc.date.available	2011-12-12	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-10-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Human Movement Science, 2012, 31 (5), pp. 1328 - 1339	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0167-9457	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/131214
dc.description.abstract	This study investigated the relationship between motor-reduced visual perceptual abilities and visual-motor integration abilities of Chinese learning children by employing the Developmental Test of Visual Perception (Hammill, Pearson, & Voress, 1993), in which both abilities are measured in a single test. A total of 72 native Chinese learners of age 5 participated in this study. The findings indicated that the Chinese learners scored much higher in the visual-motor integration tasks than in motor-reduced visual perceptual tasks. The results support the theory of autonomous systems of motor-reduced visual perception and visual-motor integration and query current beliefs about the prior development of the former to the latter for the Chinese learners. To account for the Chinese participants' superior performance in visual-motor integration tasks over motor-reduced visual perceptual tasks, the visual-spatial properties of Chinese characters, general handwriting theories, the motor control theory and the psychogeometric theory of Chinese character-writing are referred to. The significance of the findings is then discussed. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Human Movement Science	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.humov.2011.12.003	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Experimental Psychology	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Humans	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Orientation	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Language Development	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Discrimination Learning	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Pattern Recognition, Visual	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Visual Perception	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Aptitude	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Psychomotor Performance	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Neuropsychological Tests	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Reading	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Handwriting	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Child, Preschool	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Hong Kong	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Female	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Male	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Feedback, Sensory	en_US
dc.title	Motor-reduced visual perceptual abilities and visual-motor integration abilities of Chinese learning children	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	5	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	31	en_US
utslib.for	09 Engineering	en_US
utslib.for	11 Medical and Health Sciences	en_US
utslib.for	17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.issue	5	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	31	en_US

Abstract:

This study investigated the relationship between motor-reduced visual perceptual abilities and visual-motor integration abilities of Chinese learning children by employing the Developmental Test of Visual Perception (Hammill, Pearson, & Voress, 1993), in which both abilities are measured in a single test. A total of 72 native Chinese learners of age 5 participated in this study. The findings indicated that the Chinese learners scored much higher in the visual-motor integration tasks than in motor-reduced visual perceptual tasks. The results support the theory of autonomous systems of motor-reduced visual perception and visual-motor integration and query current beliefs about the prior development of the former to the latter for the Chinese learners. To account for the Chinese participants' superior performance in visual-motor integration tasks over motor-reduced visual perceptual tasks, the visual-spatial properties of Chinese characters, general handwriting theories, the motor control theory and the psychogeometric theory of Chinese character-writing are referred to. The significance of the findings is then discussed. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.

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