Latest Motor skills Stories

Iannuzzo’s Karate School helps children develop hand-eye coordination skills by having blocks, punches and kicks aimed towards multiple angles and from alternating stances. Over the past few weeks one student in particular has gone from a child with poor hand-eye coordination skills to a top varsity athlete as a result of his martial arts training at Iannuzzo’s Karate School. (PRWEB) October 05, 2011 Seventh degree black belt and master instructor, Rick Iannuzzo has trained...

Do Left-Handers Have More Fun? Leftyslefthanded.com Says Yes! San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 02, 2011 For the 2nd year in a row, leftyslefthanded.com is holding a short video contest to celebrate International Left-Handers' Day, August 13. This year's contest seeks the Most Hilarious 60 sec. video featuring one of Lefty's gag products - either the Left-Handed Dribble Mug or the Lefty Bicycle Playing Cards. Last year's contest was great fun, and the winners can be seen on...

Right-handedness is a distinctively human characteristic, with right-handers outnumbering lefties nine-to-one. But how far back does right-handedness reach in the human story?Researchers have tried to determine the answer by looking at ancient tools, prehistoric art and human bones, but the results have not been definitive.Now, David Frayer, professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, has used markings on fossilized front teeth to show that right-handedness goes back more than...

Inspired by his daughter's need to improve her fine motor skills, app developer Frank Jensen is leveraging the multi-touch capabilities of the iPad into a tool to improve fine motor skills in kids and adults. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) March 10, 2011 BinaryLabs is turning the iPad into a tool for improving fine motor skills with the introduction of Dexteria, a new app for the iPad. The app features interactive multi-touch activities designed by licensed occupational therapists. "There...

Unconsciously, right-handers associate good with the right side of space and bad with the left. But this association can be rapidly changed, according to a study published online March 9, 2011 in Psychological Science, by Daniel Casasanto (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) and Evangelia Chrysikou (University of Pennsylvania). Even a few minutes of using the left hand more fluently than the right can reverse right-handers' judgments of good and bad, making them think that the left is...

According to University of Toronto speech-language pathologist Luc De Nil, the beat could be revealing such things as how children master one of the most complex tasks of all "“ speech."The rapid and precise muscle movements of speech must be the most intricate, yet poorly understood, of all the sensory-motor skills," says De Nil.De Nil's interest in finger-tapping came out of his group's previous work on adults who stutter. His team discovered that they have problems in acquiring...

A child who dreams of being President has far better odds if they're a lefty. Leftyslefthanded.com's new research has brought to light an astonishing and diverse group of powerful people, especially political leaders, who are left-handed. San Francisco, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) February 10, 2011 A child who dreams of being President has far better odds if they're a lefty. Leftyslefthanded.com's new research has brought to light an astonishing and diverse group of powerful people, especially...

For your Valentine this year, pick a lefty. Among their many advantages over the right-handed majority, left-handers may in fact be better lovers and life partners. Leftyslefthanded.com tells why. San Francisco, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) January 21, 2011 For your Valentine this year, pick a lefty. Among their many advantages over the right-handed majority, left-handers may in fact be better lovers and life partners. In "The Left Stuff: How the LEFT-HANDED Have SURVIVED and THRIVED in a...

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, have identified a genetic variant which influences whether a person with dyslexia is more skilled with either the left or right hand. The finding identifies a novel gene for handedness and provides the first genetic evidence to support a much speculated link between handedness and a language-related disorder.The majority of people worldwide are right-handed. Since the left side of the brain controls the right...

"In laboratory tests, right- and left-handers associate positive ideas like honesty and intelligence with their dominant side of space and negative ideas with their non-dominant side," says Daniel Casasanto of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands. To find out whether people link 'good' with 'dominant' beyond the laboratory, Casasanto and co-author Kyle Jasmin examined spontaneous gestures during positive and negative speech in the final debates of...