International Journal of Neurorehabilitation

Emanuela Nobile

Publications

• Mini Review
  Motor Imagery and Motor Coordination in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Similarities and Differences
  Author(s): Emanuela Nobile, Alessandro Piedimonte and Roberto KellerEmanuela Nobile, Alessandro Piedimonte and Roberto Keller
  
  Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are composed by a variety of developmental deficits, such as problems in verbal communication and repetitive behaviours. Together with these social deficits, the recent literature has reported difficulties in motor coordination during the everyday life of children and adolescents with ASD. These motor deficits could be linked to a possible alteration of motor simulation processes in ASD but just a few studies attempted to directly compare motor imagery tasks and actual motor coordination within these disorders and specifically using the same task. In a recent study, the relationship between explicit motor imagery and motor execution has been investigated within the same experimental paradigm. The authors employed a spatial bimanual task called “circles-lines” task where participants are asked to draw with one han.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2376-0281.1000310

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