The Relation Between Fine Motor Skills and the Development of Early Cognition

LOCATION: Orlando, FL

About the Course

This course will review fine and gross motor development across infancy and toddlerhood, with a focus on fine motor development. Participants will gain an understanding of the relationship between motor development and cognitive changes across infancy. Special consideration will be paid to lateralized motor and cognitive behaviors. 

Learning Outcomes: 

Upon the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

• Investigate the typical course of development of fine and gross motor skills across infancy  
• Analyze factors that influence the development of cognitive skills across infancy  
• Demonstrate an example of the relationship between the concurrent development of cognitive and motor development 
• Analyze current research on infant lateralized behavior and explain how these research studies demonstrate the relationship between cognition and motor behavior 
• Inspect the research on infant handedness development and the relationship to cognitive development

About the Presenter

Julie Campbell is an associate professor in developmental and quantitative psychology at Illinois State University. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina (UNC)–Greensboro in 2015 and completed a predoctoral fellowship at UNC–Chapel Hill's Center for Developmental Science in 2014. Dr. Campbell directs the REACH lab at ISU, researching developmental factors in hemispheric specialization, lateralization, handedness, and motor development. She is working on projects examining infant neuromotor abilities and parent–child interactions using technology to provide parents with information about infant motor development. Dr. Campbell serves on the board of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology and as faculty mentor for Psi Chi at ISU. She is passionate about inspiring students and colleagues to conduct developmental research. 

Course Timed Outline  

• Introduction of myself, topic, and agenda (10 minutes)
• Development of motor skills (20 minutes)
• Gross motor (20 minutes)
• Fine motor (15 minutes)
• Development of cognitive skills (10 minutes)
• Cognitive development perception (10 minutes)
• Cognitive development social factors (25 minutes)
• Motor and cognition together (90 minutes)
• Lateralization (90 minutes)
• Q&A opportunity (10 minutes)
• Back to motor and cognition (40 minutes)
• Summary and questions (20 minutes)

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Disclaimer

The information provided in this activity is for continuing education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical judgment of a healthcare provider relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition.  

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