Graphonomics,automaticity and handwriting assessment |
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| Authors: | Oliver Tucha Lara Tucha Klaus W Lange |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, UK.e‐mail: oliver.tucha@plymouth.ac.uk;2. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Regensburg, Germany.e‐mail: klaus.lange@psychologie.uni‐regensburg.de |
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| Abstract: | A recent review of handwriting research in Literacy concluded that current curricula of handwriting education focus too much on writing style and neatness and neglect the aspect of handwriting automaticity. This conclusion is supported by evidence in the field of graphonomic research, where a range of experiments have been used to investigate this issue from a movement perspective. The present article offers a brief introduction to a graphonomic approach to handwriting analysis and the findings of graphonomic research about handwriting automaticity. These findings indicate that attentional control to any characteristic of the writing process (e.g. direction, lexical status, movement, style) results in an impairment of handwriting automaticity. These findings support and add a new dimension to previous conclusions. |
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| Keywords: | kinematics writing motor control |
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