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Guided play and free play in an enriched environment: impact on motor development
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of guided play and free play in an enriched environment
intervention programs using motor skill development in kindergarten children. Seventy-one children attending
kindergarten classes were assigned to two experimental groups and one control group. Participants performed the Test
of Gross Motor Development-2 before and after the intervention period. Results revealed that both boys and girls in the
guided play group showed motor skill improvement, whereas no changes were observed in motor development in the
boys and girls assigned to the free play in enriched environment group, nor in those in the control group. These findings
indicate that the teacher’s role in the guided play intervention was crucial to help preschool children to improve their
performance.CIEC – Research Centre on Child Studies, UM (FCT R&D 317
Author Correction: Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function
These authors contributed equally: Gail Davies, Max Lam.
These authors jointly supervised this work: Todd Lencz, Ian J. Deary
Author Correction: Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function (Nature Communications, (2018), 9, 1, (2098), 10.1038/s41467-018-04362-x)
Christina M. Lill, who contributed to analysis of data, was inadvertently omitted from the author list in the originally published version of this article. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the article. © 2019, The Author(s)