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The effects of handwriting experience on functional brain development in pre-literate children by James, Karin H., Engelhardt, Laura

“…In an age of increasing technology, the possibility that typing on a keyboard will replace handwriting raises questions about the future usefulness of…”
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Protracted Neural Development of Dorsal Motor Systems During Handwriting and the Relation to Early Literacy Skills by Vinci-Booher, Sophia, James, Karin H

“…Handwriting is a complex visual-motor skill that affects early reading development. A large body of work has demonstrated that handwriting is supported by a…”
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Letter processing automatically recruits a sensory–motor brain network by James, Karin H., Gauthier, Isabel

“…Behavioral, neuropsychological and neuroimaging research suggest a distributed network that is recruited when we interact with letters. For the first time, we…”
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Constraining Stroke Order During Manual Symbol Learning Hinders Subsequent Recognition in Children Under 4 1/2 Years by Merritt, Emily, Swain, Shelley N, Vinci-Booher, Sophia, James, Karin H

“…In the age of technology, writing by hand has become less common than texting and keyboarding. Learning letters by hand, however, has been shown to have…”
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The Importance of Handwriting Experience on the Development of the Literate Brain by James, Karin H.

“…Handwriting experience can have significant effects on the ability of young children to recognize letters. Why handwriting has this facilitative effect and how…”
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The neural correlates of attempting to suppress negative versus neutral memories by Butler, Andrew J., James, Karin H.

“…We performed an event-related fMRI study comparing attempts at suppressing recall of negative versus neutral memories. The hippocampus is crucial for…”
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Vision for Action in Toddlers: The Posting Task by Street, Sandra Y., James, Karin H., Jones, Susan S., Smith, Linda B.

“…Three experiments examine 18-to 24-month-old (N = 78) toddlers' ability to spatially orient objects by their major axes for insertion into a slot. This is a…”
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Handwriting Generates Variable Visual Output to Facilitate Symbol Learning by Li, Julia X., James, Karin H.

“…Recent research has demonstrated that handwriting practice facilitates letter categorization in young children. The present experiments investigated why…”
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Ecological validity of experimental set-up affects parietal involvement during letter production by Vinci-Booher, Sophia, James, Karin H.

“…•Ecological validity affected fMRI activation during handwriting•Visual-motor coupling affected activation in left posterior intraparietal sulcus•Left…”
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An Analysis of the Brain Systems Involved with Producing Letters by Hand by Vinci-Booher, Sophia, Cheng, Hu, James, Karin H

“…Complex visual-motor behaviors dominate human-environment interactions. Letter production, writing individual letters by hand, is an example of a complex…”
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Visual experiences during letter production contribute to the development of the neural systems supporting letter perception by Vinci‐Booher, Sophia, James, Karin H.

“…Letter production through handwriting creates visual experiences that may be important for the development of visual letter perception. We sought to better…”
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Category structure guides the formation of neural representations by Plebanek, Daniel J., James, Karin H.

“…Perceptual variability is often viewed as having multiple benefits in object learning and categorization. Despite the abundant results demonstrating benefits…”
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Neural differences in expert guitarists during over-learned non-standard visuomotor mapping of abstract versus concrete information by Butler, Andrew J., James, Thomas, Pavisian, Bennis, James, Karin H.

“…•We exposed expert guitarists to four types of familiar visual depictions.•We were able to equate motor actions while comparing the translation of vision to…”
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Functional fixedness in tool use: Learning modality, limitations and individual differences by Munoz-Rubke, Felipe, Olson, Devon, Will, Russell, James, Karin H.

“…Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that describes how previous knowledge of a tool's function can negatively impact the use of this tool in novel…”
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Gesture for generalization: gesture facilitates flexible learning of words for actions on objects by Wakefield, Elizabeth M., Hall, Casey, James, Karin H., Goldin‐Meadow, Susan

“…Verb learning is difficult for children (Gentner, ), partially because children have a bias to associate a novel verb not only with the action it represents,…”
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Visual–motor symbol production facilitates letter recognition in young children by Zemlock, Deborah, Vinci-Booher, Sophia, James, Karin H.

“…Previous research has suggested that handwriting letters may be an important exerciser to facilitate early letter understanding. Experimental studies to date,…”
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Effects of Learning With Gesture on Children's Understanding of a New Language Concept by Wakefield, Elizabeth M, James, Karin H

“…Asking children to gesture while being taught a concept facilitates their learning. Here, we investigated whether children benefitted equally from producing…”
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Learning math by hand: The neural effects of gesture-based instruction in 8-year-old children by Wakefield, Elizabeth M., Congdon, Eliza L., Novack, Miriam A., Goldin-Meadow, Susan, James, Karin H.

“…Producing gesture can be a powerful tool for facilitating learning. This effect has been replicated across a variety of academic domains, including algebra,…”
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Dorsal stream function in the young child: an fMRI investigation of visually guided action by James, Karin H., Kersey, Alyssa J.

“…Visually guided action is a ubiquitous component of human behavior, but the neural substrates that support the development of this behavior are unknown. Here…”
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Neural substrates of sensorimotor processes: letter writing and letter perception by Vinci-Booher, Sophia A, James, Karin H

“…Writing and perceiving letters are thought to share similar neural substrates; however, what constitutes a neural representation for letters is currently…”
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