Abstract
The coordination of sensory-motor (s.m.) activities is implied by a large variety of behaviours throughout life. These behaviours are different in their complexity, accuracy, function, and in their internal organization. For examples you need s.m. coordination for grabing a book on a shelf behind you, a coordination which involves a coupling of a memorized visual location with a manual pointing. Threading a needle reguines a more complex bimanual coordination with specific role for each hand and eye-hand coordination with very accurately coupled pointing. In many cases early sensory-motor coordinations are the origins of skilled automatic activity such as typing, piano playing, etc. So, it is important to know how s.m. coordinations appear or are built and become efficient.
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Bloch, H. (1990). Status and Function of Early Sensory-Motor Coordination. In: Bloch, H., Bertenthal, B.I. (eds) Sensory-Motor Organizations and Development in Infancy and Early Childhood. NATO ASI Series, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2071-2_12
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