{"id":8760,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pincer_grasp_-or_grip\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:13","slug":"pincer_grasp_-or_grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pincer_grasp_-or_grip\/","title":{"rendered":"Pincer grasp (or grip)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grasping(small) objects between thumb and index finger. &nbsp;By 8-9 months, infantsdemonstrate an inferior pincer grasp (thumb adducted so as to secure objectagainst extended index finger) and by 10-12 months the superior pincer grasp(complete opposition of thumb pad and index finger pad). &nbsp;The latter tends toco-occur with the first age of appearance of pointing with the index finger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"corticospinal_tracts_-cst-\">Corticospinal tracts (CST)<\/a>, Direct corticospinal connections (or tracts), <a href=\"fine_motor_abilities\">Fine motor abilities<\/a>, <a href=\"grasp_response\">Grasp response<\/a>, <a href=\"hysteresis\">Hysteresis<\/a>, <a href=\"palmar_grasp\">Palmar grasp<\/a>, <a href=\"pre-reaching\">Pre-reaching<\/a>, <a href=\"prehension\">Prehension<\/a>, <a href=\"radial_palmar_grasp\">Radial palmar grasp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grasping(small) objects between thumb and index finger. &nbsp;By 8-9 months, infantsdemonstrate an inferior pincer grasp (thumb adducted so as to secure objectagainst extended index finger) and by 10-12 months the superior pincer grasp(complete opposition of thumb pad and index finger pad). &nbsp;The latter tends toco-occur with the first age of appearance of pointing with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/pincer_grasp_-or_grip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pincer grasp (or grip)&#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-8760","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\/8760","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=8760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}