PhD defence: Motor Skills and Effects of Motor Practice in Children and Young Adults

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Malene Norup

PhD thesis

This thesis investigates motor skills and effects of motor practice in children and young adults.

The research consists of a cross sectional study investigating associations between motor skills, executive functions, and physical capacity in pre-adolescent children.

The interventional part of the research investigates the effects of dynamic or isometric motor practice on behavioral and neurophysiological measures in pre-adolescent children and young adults.

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2023, 181 pages.

Date

14 June 2023, 14:00

Place

St. Aud., Nørre Allé 53, 2200 Copenhagen.

Opponents

Associate Professor Eva Wulff Helge (chair), Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Associate Professor Andrew James Thomas Stevenson, Aalborg University, Danmark.

Professor Claudia Voelcker-Rehage, University of Münster, Germany.

Supervisor

Associate professor Jesper Lundbye-Jensen, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Co-supervisor

Docent Anna Bugge, Københavns Professionshøjskole, Denmark.