| in Handbook of brain and behaviour in human development, Kalverboer and Gramsbergen eds | fingers [bend] round an object in the palm of his hand |
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| These are the so-called general movements Prechtl et al | De Vries, Johanna et al |
The newborn may cry and have muscular activity when cold, but there is no voluntary control of muscular activity.
| Both include the whole body, but the general movements are slower and have a complex sequence of involved body parts, while the startle is a quick, phasic movement of all limbs and trunk and neck | |
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| At 9-10 weeks postmestrual age complex and generalized movements occur | "Fetal movement counting for assessment of fetal wellbeing" |
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| Butterworth, George and Harris, Margaret |
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