DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE; An Advanced Textbook; Eighth Edition Page 1 DOI: 10.4324/9781003387145-8
Introduction: The Importance of Motor Development Motor behavior is critical to developmental …

Infants master crawling and walking in an environment filled with varied and unfamiliar
surfaces. At the same time, infants' bodies and skills continually change. The changing …

This study compared the relative contributions of growing body dimensions, age, and
walking experience in the development of walking skill in 9‐to 17‐month‐old infants (N …

The effect of an optic flow pattern on human locomotion was studied in subjects walking on a
self-driven treadmill. During walking an optic flow pattern was presented, which gave …

New motor skills supply infants with new possibilities for action and have consequences for
development in unexpected places. For example, the transition from crawling to walking is …

Infant Motor Development is the first text to concentrate on motor development during
infancy--the stage in which the greatest qualitative changes in the life span occur. It is an …

The traditional study of infant locomotion focuses on what movements look like at various
points in development, and how infants acquire sufficient strength and balance to move. We …

When parents brag about their baby's accomplishments and document their infant's
developmental achievements on calendars and smart phones, they tend to focus on …

Merging scientific theory with a practical, clinical approach, Body of Awareness explores the
formation of infant movement experience and its manifest influence upon the later adult …

This article describes developmental changes in gait velocity and relates these changes to
gait parameters that index postural stability (step width and lateral acceleration) and two …