Dr. Femke van Abswoude
Femke van Abswoude is an assistant professor at Radboud University. After finishing her masters in Human Movement Sciences from VU Amsterdam, she obtained her PhD from the faculty of social sciences of the Radboud University, where her research focused on implicit and explicit motor learning in typically developing children and children with movement disorders (CP, DCD). Currently, she is part of the transdisciplinary research team ‘Active Living’, focusing on keeping people active their whole lives. Within this team she has a particular interest in the movement behaviour of children and implementation research.
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Selected Publications
Steenbergen, B., Valtr, L., Dunford, C., Prunty, M., Bekhuis, H., Temlali, T.Y., van Abswoude, F., Lust, J. M., Warlop, G., Augustijn, M., Smits-Engelsman, B. C. M., & Wilson, P. H. (2024). Awareness about developmental coordination disorder. Frontiers in Public Health, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1345257
Krajenbrink, H., van Abswoude, F., Vermeulen, S., van Cappellen, S., & Steenbergen, B. (2018). Motor learning and movement automatization in typically developing children: The role of instructions with an external or internal focus of attention. Human Movement Science, 60, 183–190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2018.06.010
van Abswoude, F., Nuijen, N. B., van der Kamp, J., & Steenbergen, B. (2018). Individual Differences Influencing Immediate Effects of Internal and External Focus Instructions on Children’s Motor Performance. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 89(2), 190–199. https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2018.1442915
van Cappellen – van Maldegem, S. J. M., van Abswoude, F., Krajenbrink, H., & Steenbergen, B. (2018). Motor learning in children with developmental coordination disorder: The role of focus of attention and working memory. Human Movement Science, 62, 211–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2018.11.001
van Abswoude, F., Santos-Vieira, B., van der Kamp, J., & Steenbergen, B. (2015). The influence of errors during practice on motor learning in young individuals with cerebral palsy. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 45-46, 353–364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2015.08.008