Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Motor skill proficiency has shown to be a key predictor of children’s engagement and enjoyment of regular physical activity. Recent evidence suggests that obese children have increased difficulties in the planning, initiation and control of motor skills compared to their normal weighted peers (D’Hondt et al. 2009, Gentier et al. 2013). These difficulties often manifest themselves as slower or less efficient performance of motor skills....

Introduction: It appears recently that the lack of physical activity might not be a factor for obesity but rather a consequence of perceptual-motor difficulties (D’Hondt et al. 2011). Perception and action are two intertwined processes: perception is a means to action and action is a means to perception. Not being able to perceive correctly visual or auditory information would alter someone’s movement kinematics of any given task. The key question is how do ...