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Session Type: Paper Symposium
There is accumulated evidence for an association between motor skills and executive functions (EFs). However, not much is known about the underlying mechanisms and nature of this association or change of the association across childhood lifespan. This symposium aims to extend the knowledge of cross-sectional and longitudinal association between different motor skills and EFs from early infancy through kindergarten age, using different approaches.
Paper 1 will link prospective motor control and EFs in infancy. Results from 18-month-olds indicate that prospective motor control is correlated with simple inhibition and working memory, but not complex inhibition. These results will be discussed within an embodied-cognitive framework, together with ongoing longitudinal research. Paper 2 studies the cross-sectional and longitudinal association of fine motor skills, pure motor skills, motor inhibition and EFs in preschool children. Results show that - even when including environmental factors - fine motor skills are among the strongest predictors of EFs in 2-to-6-year-olds. Paper 3 assumes that the link between performance in motor and EFs tasks is driven by task novelty and complexity. The examination of motor control and EFs tasks in 5-to-6-year-olds seems to confirm this hypothesis, indicating that EFs are more required in high demand motor control tasks, and thus, explain the stronger correlations. Paper 4 investigates the cross lag effect of visuomotor skills and EFs between the Fall and Spring of prekindergarten, and Spring of prekindergarten to the Fall of kindergarten. Moreover, the paper will examine the interaction between visuomotor skills and EFs on growth in math.
An Embodied Account of Executive Function Development in Infancy - Presenting Author: Janna M. Gottwald, Uppsala University; Non-Presenting Author: Sheila Norin, Uppsala University; Non-Presenting Author: Aurora De Bortoli Vizioli, National Research Council, Rome; Non-Presenting Author: Carin Marciszko, Uppsala University; Non-Presenting Author: Marcus Lindskog, Uppsala University; Non-Presenting Author: Therese Ekberg, Uppsala University; Non-Presenting Author: Pär Nyström, Uppsala University; Non-Presenting Author: Claes von Hofsten, Uppsala University; Non-Presenting Author: Gustaf Gredebäck, Uppsala University
Predictors of Executive Functions in Preschool Children - Presenting Author: Annina E. Zysset, Children's Hospital Zurich; Non-Presenting Author: Tanja H. Kakebeeke, Children's Hospital Zurich; Non-Presenting Author: Nadine Messerli-Bürgy, University of Fribourg; Non-Presenting Author: Andrea H. Meyer, University of Basel; Non-Presenting Author: Kerstin Stülb, University of Fribourg; Non-Presenting Author: Claudia S. Leeger-Aschmann, University of Zurich; Non-Presenting Author: Einat A. Schmutz, University of Zurich; Non-Presenting Author: Amar Arhab, Lausanne University Hospital; Non-Presenting Author: Jardena J. Puder, Lausanne University Hospital; Non-Presenting Author: Susi Kriemler, University of Zurich; Non-Presenting Author: Simone Munsch, University of Fribourg; Non-Presenting Author: Oskar G. Jenni, Children's Hospital Zurich
Towards a Better Understanding of the Motor-Cognition Link in Kindergarten Children - Presenting Author: Michelle Maurer, University of Bern; Non-Presenting Author: Claudia Roebers, Bern University
Cross Domain and Interactive Effects Among Visuomotor Skills, Executive Function and Math Between Preschool and Kindergarten - Presenting Author: Derek R. Becker, Western Carolina University; Non-Presenting Author: Megan McClelland, Oregon State University