The implicit contribution of fine motor skills to mathematical insight in early childhood.

Autor/inn/en	Fischer, Ursula; Suggate, Sebastian P.; Stöger, Heidrun
Titel	The implicit contribution of fine motor skills to mathematical insight in early childhood.
Quelle	In: Frontiers in psychology, 11 (2020) Art. 1143, 15 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1664-1078
DOI	10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01143
Schlagwörter	Arbeitsgedächtnis; Feinmotorik; Intelligenz (Psy); Kognitive Kompetenz; Frühe Kindheit; Vorschulalter; Finger; Mathematische Kompetenz; Zahlenverständnis; Zählen; Grafomotorik; Geschicklichkeit
Abstract	Understanding number magnitude is an important prerequisite for children's mathematical development. One early experience that contributes to this understanding is the common practice of finger counting. [...]. Accordingly, children need sufficient fine motor skills (FMS) to successfully count on their fingers. However, the role that different types of FMS (such as dexterity and graphomotor skills) might play in the development of finger-based number representations is still unknown. In the current study, [the authors] investigated (a) whether children's FMS [...] are associated with their emerging finger-based number representations (ordinal and cardinal), (b) whether FMS explain variance in children's finger-based number representations beyond the influence of general cognitive skills, and (c) whether the association between FMS and numerical skills is mediated by finger-based representations. [The authors] tested associations between preschool children's [...] FMS [...], finger-based number representations, and numerical skills. Furthermore, visuo-spatial working memory and nonverbal intelligence were controlled for. Dexterity was related to children's finger-based number representations as well as numerical skills after controlling for chronological age, but not after also controlling for cognitive skills. Moreover, the relationship between dexterity and numerical skills was mediated by finger-based number representations. No such associations were observed for graphomotor skills. These results suggest that dexterity plays a role in children's development of finger-based number representations, which in turn contribute to their numerical skills. Possible explanations are discussed. (Orig.).
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Update	2021/3