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September 5, 2025British Journal of Developmental PsychologyOpen Access

Bimanual or unimanual stacking strategies under different cognitive loads: Evidence of a cognitive/action trade‐off in the coordination strategy of 3‐ to 5‐year‐olds

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LSLisanne SchröerJMJohanna‐Katharina ManingerRCRichard Cooper

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Overview

This research shows unimanual strategies increase under cognitive load in preschoolers, indicating cognitive functions affect coordination choices.

Key Points

  • Higher cognitive load led preschoolers to prefer unimanual strategies over bimanual coordination.
  • Three-year-olds demonstrated significantly more unimanual strategies under high cognitive load tasks.
  • Individual differences in executive function, like inhibitory control, influenced motor strategy choices.
  • The findings suggest a trade-off where cognitive demands adjust motor coordination strategies in young children.

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Schröer et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23922b210217d6477a0bahttps://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.70011
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