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By development of motor behaviour is meant the sequence of systematic changes of the repertoire of motor patterns in infancy and childhood. These changes are directly or indirectly related to the growth and maturational process of the nervous system. They are an expression of the structural and functional development of the brain. The development of the nervous system lasts longer than that of many other organ systems of the organism.
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Prechtl, H.F.R. (1971). Motor Behaviour in Relation to Brain Structure. In: Stoelinga, G.B.A., Van Der Werff Ten Bosch, J.J. (eds) Normal and Abnormal Development of Brain and Behaviour. Boerhaave Series for Postgraduate Medical Education, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2921-6_8
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