Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0346478

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0346478

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The development of feedforward mechanisms of motor control: The role of efference copy in motor skill development. Our work provides preliminary evidence that deficits in efference copy (or feedforward planning) underlie impaired motor skill development in children (or Developmental Coordination Disorder - DCD). The aim of this project is to advance our understanding of normal and abnormal motor development by examining this hypothesis in a large sample, longitudinally. We will examine variations in the presentation of clumsiness, cognitive deficit(s) in different subtypes, and changes in presentation with age. We predict that deficits in efference copy will explain departures from normal motor skill development in most children. We also predict that imagery training will ameliorate the deficit.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 30-06-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $211,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Health, Clinical And Counselling Psychology | Developmental Psychology And Ageing

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ability and disability | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Child health |

Other Keywords

Ability and disability | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Child health | Developmental Psychology And Ageing | Health, Clinical And Counselling Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Psychology

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