title: Are visual-perceptual and visual-motor skills separate abilities?
abstract: This study explored the independence of visual-perceptual and visual-motor abilities. Scores on the Motor-free Visual Perception Test were correlated by Pearson's method with scores on tests that weight the visual-perceptual, motor, and visual-motor components differently. Small but significant correlations were found between the Motor-free Visual Perception Test and tests of visual-motor integration, but there was no relationship between the motor-free test and tests of motor ability. These findings support the premise that tests of visual perception, visual-motor integration, and motor ability measure different skills.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Leonard
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Foxcroft
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kroukamp
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009048:Motor Skills; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D014796:Visual Perception