Motor-reduced visual perceptual abilities and visual-motor integration abilities of Chinese learning children

Mun Yee Lai, Frederick Leung

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    Abstract

    This study investigated the relationship between motor-reduced visual perceptual abilities and visual-motor integration abilities of Chinese learning children by employing the Developmental Test of Visual Perception (Hammill, Pearson, & Voress, 1993), in which both abilities are measured in a single test. A total of 72 native Chinese learners of age 5 participated in this study. The findings indicated that the Chinese learners scored much higher in the visual-motor integration tasks than in motor-reduced visual perceptual tasks. The results support the theory of autonomous systems of motor-reduced visual perception and visual-motor integration and query current beliefs about the prior development of the former to the latter for the Chinese learners. To account for the Chinese participants' superior performance in visual-motor integration tasks over motor-reduced visual perceptual tasks, the visual-spatial properties of Chinese characters, general handwriting theories, the motor control theory and the psychogeometric theory of Chinese character-writing are referred to. The significance of the findings is then discussed.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1328-1339
    Number of pages12
    JournalHuman Movement Science
    Volume31
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Oct 2012

    Keywords

    • Motor-reduced visual perception
    • Psychogeometric theory of Chinese character writing
    • Visual perception
    • Visual-motor integration
    • Visual-spatial properties of Chinese words

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