One and two year olds are working to master gross motor skills like walking, running, and jumping; they are also picking up fine motor skills like using a spoon, drinking from a cup, and unfastening buttons.
"If in babbling, the child were just working through mastering the motor output of the mouth, then all sounds should come out equally," Dr. Petitto said.
Dance is kinesthetic -- the child masters fine motor control through repetition and feeling the physicality of their own body.
As pups learn to echolocate and master the motors skills required for flight and catching nocturnal flying insects, this may stimulate a switch to emitting Type III calls (Fig. 3A).
It takes about six months to master the minute motor skills necessary to do the job.
Indeed, all of us do the same thing when we master a fine motor skill such as writing – or wielding a scalpel.
Further, many of these sites were also bound by a master regulator of motor neuron-specific genes.
In movies like these, as well as in "The Master" and "Holy Motors," filmmakers are pushing hard against, and sometimes dispensing with, storytelling conventions, and audiences seem willing to follow them.
Talk: Interview with Captain Thomas Jaski, master of the Dutch motor vessel Westerdam, now in N.Y. on her maiden voyage.
And I wonder if Jia, a master filmmaker without a motor, doesn't need to find a setting where there's some vibrant, messy life going on.
By William Shawn and John McCarten The New Yorker, July 20 , 1946P. 13 Talk: Interview with Captain Thomas Jaski, master of the Dutch motor vessel Westerdam, now in N.Y. on her maiden voyage.
