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Have Children Lost a Natural Training Ground for Attention? Manual Activities, Embodied Cognition, and the Expression of ADHD Symptoms

2026-05-04

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The increasing prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been attributed to multiple factors, including improved diagnosis, genetic predisposition, and environmental influences. One underexplored contributing factor is the systematic decline of manual, embodied activities in childhood. This perspective proposes that activities such as handwriting, drawing, crafting, and object manipulation...

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Literature Corpus work: 51b6e299-be01-5205-ba32-a001eafbdeb7
DOI: 10.32388/trxqj7

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