eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal 0974-6242 2015-12-28 8 2 529 534 10.13005/bpj/795 3132 article Lyudmila Valentinovna Shkolyar 1 Irina Aleksandrovna Lykova 1 Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Institute of Art Education and Cultural Studies of the Russian Academy of Education”8/1, Pogodinskaya St., Moscow, 119121 The authors of the article research the problem related to developing the functions of the human being’s hand in ontogeny in the context of defining physiological basis of the art activity and comparing biodynamical and sociocultural components of the motor function. The article content is made up at the confluence of biology, zoo psychology, physiology, and age psychology. The authors reveal such functions of the human being’s hand as inspection, life support, orientation in space, creativeness, protection, communication, experimenting, etc. They analyze basic types of activity (orienting, transitive, instrumental) and give their characteristics (amplitude, volume, power, adequacy, accuracy, expressiveness). https://biomedpharmajournal.org/vol8no2/development-of-hand-functions-in-the-human-being-ontogeny/ hand functions hand actions ontogeny motion experience