title: Verbal skills, finger tapping, and cognitive tempo define a second-order factor of temporal information processing.
abstract: Adolescents with academic and social problems are often characterized as impulsive, having poor verbal skills, and having poor motor coordination. Language and skilled movements have long been hypothesized to share a common neural basis. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that verbal skills, fine motor tasks that require a continuous sequential response, and cognitive tempo (impulsiveness, time judgment) would interrelate to define a higher-order dimension of "temporal information processing." Subjects were 155 males of high school age. The results confirmed the basic hypothesis.
authors.affiliation: University of New Orleans, USA.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Stanford
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Barratt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D013998:Time Perception; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014888:Wechsler Scales