A considerable body of research indicates that children's executive function (EF) skills and
related school readiness constructs are important for early learning and long-term academic …

Children need a range of skills to transition successfully to formal schooling. In early
childhood classrooms, children must master their fine and gross motor skills. In this article …

Quality preschool programs that develop the whole child through age-appropriate
socioemotional and cognitive skill-building hold promise for significantly improving child …

Internationally, governments, health and exercise practitioners are struggling with the threat
posed by physical inactivity leading to worsening outcomes in health and life expectancy …

Background Motor competence has important developmental associations with aspects of
physical health, but there has been no synthesis of longitudinal associations with cognitive …

Positive associations exist between physical activity, cognition, and academic performance
in children and adolescents. Further research is required to examine which factors underpin …

This study explored transactional associations among visuomotor integration, attention, fine
motor coordination, and mathematics skills in a diverse sample of one hundred thirty‐five 5 …

Previous studies have documented that individual differences in fine and gross motor skills
are associated with executive function (EF) skills. This study used an experimental design to …

Learning to write is challenging for young children, as they must integrate their still-
develo** fine motor skills with an understanding of written language to produce a mark …

Different lines of evidence suggest an association between motor skills and executive
functions (EFs) in kindergarten children. Comparatively little is known about the specific …