Robotic movement elicits visuomotor priming in children with autism

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 448-454

  Pierno, Andrea C ^a   Mari, Morena ^a   Lusher, Dean ^b   Castiello, Umberto ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action observation; Autism; Kinematics; Social cognition; Visuomotor priming

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTICIPATION; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MALE; ROBOTICS; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BIOMECHANICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38749108095     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.08.020     Document Type: Article

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