Dissociation between executed and imagined bimanual movements in autism spectrum conditions.
Alessandro PiedimonteMassimiliano ConsonAlessandro FrolliStefania BariFrancesco Della GattaMarco RabuffettiRoberto KellerAnna BertiFrancesca GarbariniPublished in: Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research (2017)
Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are characterized by social-communicative and motor coordination difficulties but in many cases also by an impaired capability to imagine movements. In this study we found that while two handed coordination in ASC can be developed as well as in typically developed persons, the development of motor imagery could still be immature in ASC, leading to difficulties in imagining, understanding as well as programming and coordinating complex movements.