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Fine motor skills enhance lexical processing of embodied vocabulary: A test of the nimble-hands, nimble-minds hypothesis

Sebastian SuggateFakultät für Psychologie, Pädagogik und Sportwissenschaft, University of Regensburg, Institut für Pädagogik, Regensburg, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Heidrun StoegerFakultät für Psychologie, Pädagogik und Sportwissenschaft, University of Regensburg, Institut für Pädagogik, Regensburg, Germany
Pages 2169-2187 | Received 08 Jun 2016, Accepted 16 Aug 2016, Published online: 14 Sep 2016

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Sebastian P. Suggate, Viktoria L. Karle, Tanja Kipfelsberger & Heidrun Stoeger. (2023) The effect of fine motor skills, handwriting, and typing on reading development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 232, pages 105674.
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Emiko J. Muraki, Israa A. Siddiqui & Penny M. Pexman. (2022) Quantifying children’s sensorimotor experience: Child body–object interaction ratings for 3359 English words. Behavior Research Methods 54:6, pages 2864-2877.
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Philipp Martzog & Sebastian Paul Suggate. (2022) Screen media are associated with fine motor skill development in preschool children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly 60, pages 363-373.
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Nicole A. van Rootselaar, Dana Grandmont, Robbin Gibb, Fangfang Li & Claudia L. R. Gonzalez. (2021) Which hand knows the “right” word? What hand selection reveals about vocabulary in pre‐and school‐aged children. Developmental Psychobiology 63:6.
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George F. Michel. (2021) Handedness Development: A Model for Investigating the Development of Hemispheric Specialization and Interhemispheric Coordination. Symmetry 13:6, pages 992.
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Rebecca E. Winter, Heidrun Stoeger & Sebastian P. Suggate. (2021) Fine Motor Skills and Lexical Processing in Children and Adults. Frontiers in Psychology 12.
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Clara E. James, Sascha Zuber, Elise Dupuis-Lozeron, Laura Abdili, Diane Gervaise & Matthias Kliegel. (2020) How Musicality, Cognition and Sensorimotor Skills Relate in Musically Untrained Children. Swiss Journal of Psychology 79:3-4, pages 101-112.
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Sebastian P. Suggate & Philipp Martzog. (2020) Screen‐time influences children's mental imagery performance. Developmental Science 23:6.
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Livia Taverna, Marta Tremolada, Barbara Tosetto, Liliana Dozza & Zanin Scaratti Renata. (2020) Impact of Psycho-Educational Activities on Visual-Motor Integration, Fine Motor Skills and Name Writing among First Graders: A Kinematic Pilot Study. Children 7:4, pages 27.
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Nicole van Rooteselaar, Clarissa Beke & Claudia L. R. Gonzalez. (2020) Dual-task performance of speech and motor skill: verb generation facilitates grasping behaviour. Experimental Brain Research 238:2, pages 453-463.
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Anne Vogt, Barbara Kaup & Carolin Dudschig. (2019) When words are upside down: Language–space associations in children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 186, pages 142-158.
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Philipp Martzog & Sebastian Paul Suggate. (2019) Fine motor skills and mental imagery: Is it all in the mind?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 186, pages 59-72.
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Tatiana C. Lund, David M. Sidhu & Penny M. Pexman. (2019) Sensitivity to emotion information in children’s lexical processing. Cognition 190, pages 61-71.
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Sebastian Suggate, Eva Pufke & Heidrun Stoeger. (2019) Children’s fine motor skills in kindergarten predict reading in grade 1. Early Childhood Research Quarterly 47, pages 248-258.
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Ursula Fischer, Sebastian P. Suggate, Judith Schmirl & Heidrun Stoeger. (2018) Counting on fine motor skills: links between preschool finger dexterity and numerical skills. Developmental Science 21:4, pages e12623.
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Daniela Katharina Ahlberg, Heike Bischoff, Jessica Vanessa Strozyk, Doreen Bryant & Barbara Kaup. (2018) How do German bilingual schoolchildren process German prepositions? – A study on language-motor interactions. PLOS ONE 13:3, pages e0193349.
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Sebastian Suggate, Heidrun Stoeger & Ursula Fischer. (2017) Finger-Based Numerical Skills Link Fine Motor Skills to Numerical Development in Preschoolers. Perceptual and Motor Skills 124:6, pages 1085-1106.
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