Motor development and psychological development are fundamentally related, but
researchers typically consider them separately. In this review, we present four key features …

This article reviews research on the development of motor behavior from a developmental
systems perspective. We focus on infancy when basic action systems are acquired. Posture …

The average toddler can run circles around the world's most sophisticated robots. Sure,
robots can dole out pharmaceuticals, build cars, vacuum your house, and collect rocks from …

As the development of movement skills are so crucial to a child's involvement in lifelong
physical activity and sport, the purpose of this study was to assess the motor proficiency of …

The ecological approach is a framework for studying the behavior of animals in their
environments. My version of an ecological approach focuses on learning in the context of …

The purported goal of social science research is to develop approaches and applications to
the psychological study of social issues that allow us to know, accurately and inclusively, the …

The transition from crawling to walking requires infants to relinquish their status as
experienced, highly skilled crawlers in favor of being inexperienced, low‐skilled walkers. Yet …

Learning to walk is one of the great achievements in human development. An aim of this
chapter is to describe the developmental progression of locomotion, ranging from the …

Although a fundamental goal of developmental science is to identify general processes of
change, developmental scientists rarely generalize beyond their specific content domains …

We examined gestural and verbal interactions in 226 mother–infant pairs from Mexican,
Dominican, and African American backgrounds when infants were 14 months and 2 years of …