Cognitive and Developmental Influences in Visual-Motor Integration Skills in Young Children.
Measures of visual-motor integration skills continue to be widely used in psychological assessments with children. However, the construct validity of many visual-motor integration measures remains unclear. In this study, we investigated the relative contributions of maturation and cognitive skills t...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Assessment Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 1010 - 1017 |
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American Psychological Association
December 2011
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