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Perceptual and Motor Skills

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ7167029 ↗
Source-derived summary

Perceptual and Motor Skills is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal established by Robert B. Ammons and Carol H. Ammons in 1949. The journal covers research on perception and motor skills. The editor-in-chief is Oliver R. Runswick (King's College London). The journal was published by Ammons Scientific, but is now published by SAGE Publishing.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2025 impact factor of 2.4 with a ranking of 44 out of 104 in Psychology, Experimental.

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“Perceptual and Motor Skills” enters the record as journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Perceptual, Motor and Skills can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Perceptual, Motor and Skills.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7167029. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Perceptual and Motor Skills” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.