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: Received: 23 July 2024 / Approved: 23 July 2024 / Online: 23 July 2024 (13:48:19 CEST)
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Abrams, T. C.; Moore, R. D.; Pesce, C.; De Meester, A.; Brian, A.; Stodden, D. F. Understanding and Assessing the Interconnectedness of Motor and Cognitive Development: A Novel View on Complexity in Dual Task Paradigms. Preprints2024, 2024071790. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1790.v1
Abrams, T. C.; Moore, R. D.; Pesce, C.; De Meester, A.; Brian, A.; Stodden, D. F. Understanding and Assessing the Interconnectedness of Motor and Cognitive Development: A Novel View on Complexity in Dual Task Paradigms. Preprints 2024, 2024071790. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1790.v1
Abrams, T. C.; Moore, R. D.; Pesce, C.; De Meester, A.; Brian, A.; Stodden, D. F. Understanding and Assessing the Interconnectedness of Motor and Cognitive Development: A Novel View on Complexity in Dual Task Paradigms. Preprints2024, 2024071790. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1790.v1
APA Style
Abrams, T. C., Moore, R. D., Pesce, C., De Meester, A., Brian, A., & Stodden, D. F. (2024). Understanding and Assessing the Interconnectedness of Motor and Cognitive Development: A Novel View on Complexity in Dual Task Paradigms. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1790.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Abrams, T. C., Ali Brian and David F. Stodden. 2024 "Understanding and Assessing the Interconnectedness of Motor and Cognitive Development: A Novel View on Complexity in Dual Task Paradigms" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1790.v1
Abstract
Human development encompasses the integration of neuromotor, psychological, social-emotional, and cognitive processes across time. However, a better understanding of the interconnectedness of motor and cognitive development throughout the lifespan is needed. The integrative and dynamic nature of short-term motor skill acquisition and long-term developmental processes may foster executive functions. Unfortunately, assessments of motor competence have traditionally focused on skillfulness from a movement perspective, using restrictive task protocols that decontextualize performance and limit cognitive involvement. Additionally, traditional motor-cognitive dual-task assessments centered on cognitive involvement during specific movement protocols, have minimized impacts of task complexity and motor competence on cognitive performance. To gain a more ecologically valid understanding of the relation between motor and cognitive development, a novel assessment paradigm using an integrative approach to motor-cognitive dual-tasking is needed. The purpose of the present paper is to: 1) provide a conceptual bridge, based on multidisciplinary evidence, to effectively link the concurrent development of motor competence and executive functions via learning-related and exercise-related neurotrophic mechanisms, and 2) use this conceptual bridge to inform the development of novel motor-cognitive dual-task assessments that account for the role of task complexity, current levels of motor competence, and the continuous decision-making inherent in “real world” performance environments.
Keywords
executive function; perception-action; dual-task; motor competence; motor development; measurement
Subject
Social Sciences, Cognitive Science
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