{"id":7965,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fine_motor_abilities\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:34","slug":"fine_motor_abilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fine_motor_abilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine motor abilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movements that require small subtle muscular coordination such as object manipulation, fastening buttons, and writing, typically coordinated with movements of the eyes and performed with the requisite postural control (e.g.,of &nbsp;trunk muscles). &nbsp;When applied to fingers and hands, it is usually referred to as manual dexterity. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"direct_corticomotoneuronal_connections_-or_tracts-\">Direct corticomotoneuronal connections (or tracts)<\/a>, <a href=\"gross_motor_abilities\">Gross motor abilities<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_ability\">Motor ability<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_milestone\">Motor milestone<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_skill\">Motor skill<\/a>, <a href=\"palmar_grasp\">Palmar grasp<\/a>, <a href=\"pincer_grasp_-or_grip-\">Pincer grasp (or grip)<\/a>, <a href=\"postural_control\">Postural control<\/a>, <a href=\"prehension\">Prehension<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movements that require small subtle muscular coordination such as object manipulation, fastening buttons, and writing, typically coordinated with movements of the eyes and performed with the requisite postural control (e.g.,of &nbsp;trunk muscles). &nbsp;When applied to fingers and hands, it is usually referred to as manual dexterity. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; See Direct corticomotoneuronal connections (or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fine_motor_abilities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fine motor abilities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}