Visuomotor resonance in autism spectrum disorders

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Becchio, Cristina ^a   Castiello, Umberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autism; Mirror system; Motor facilitation; Motor interference; Social cognition; Visuomotor resonance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACILITATION; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROMODULATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY CORTEX; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 84871066746     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00110     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Aziz-Zadeh, L., Maeda, F., Zaidel, E., Mazziotta, J., and Iacoboni, M. (2002). Lateralization in motor facilitation during action observation: A TMS study. Exp. Brain Res. 144, 127-131.
2. Becchio, C., Pierno, A., Mari, M., Lusher, D., and Castiello, U. (2007). Motor contagion from gaze: The case of autism. Brain 130, 2401-2411.
3. Bertenthal, B. I., Longo, M. R., and Kosobud, A. (2006). Imitative response tendencies following observation of intransitive actions. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 32, 210-225.
4. Bhat, A. N., Landa, R. J., Galloway, J. C. (2011). Current perspectives on motor functioning in infants, children, and adults with autism spectrum disorders. Phys. Ther. 91, 1116-1129.
5. Bird, G., Leighton, J., Press, C., and Heyes, C. (2007). Intact automatic imitation of human and robot actions in autism spectrum disorders. Proc. Biol. Sci. 274, 3027-3031.
6. Blakemore, S-J., and Frith, C. D. (2005). The role of motor contagion in the prediction of action. Neuropsychologia 43, 260-267.
7. Brass, M., Bekkering, H., and Prinz, W. (2001). Movement observation affects movement execution in a simple response task. Acta Psychol. 106, 3-22.
8. Brass, M., Bekkering, H., Wohlschlager, A., and Prinz, W. (2000). Compatibility between observed and executed finger movements: Comparing symbolic, spatial, and imitative cues. Brain Cogn. 44, 124-143.
9. Castiello, U. (2003). Understanding other's people actions: intention and attention. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 29, 416-430.
10. Castiello, U., Lusher, D., Mari, M., Edwards, M. G., and Humphreys, G. W. (2002). Observing a human or a robotic hand grasping an object: Differential motor priming effects in Common mechanisms in perception and action: Attention and performance XIX, eds. W. Prinz and B. Hommel (New York: Oxford University Press), 315-333.
11. Catmur, C., Gillmeister, H., Bird, G., Liepelt, R., Brass, M., and Heyes, C. (2008). Through the looking glass: counter-mirror activation following incompatible sensorimotor learning. Eur. J. Neurosci. 28, 1208-1215.
12. Catmur, C., Walsh, V., and Heyes, C. (2007). Sensorimotor learning configures the human mirror system. Curr. Biol. 17, 1527-1531.
13. Cattaneo L, Fabbri-Destro M, Boria S, Pieraccini C, Monti A, Cossu G, Rizzolatti G. (2007). Impairment of actions chains in autism and its possible role in intention understanding. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104, 17825-17830.
14. Cavallo A., Becchio C., Sartori L., Castiello U. (2012). Grasping with tools: Corticospinal excitability reflects observed hand movements. Cereb. Cortex 22, 710-716.
15. Craighero, L., Bello, A., Fadiga, L., and Rizzolatti, G. (2002). Hand action preparation influences the response to hand pictures. Neuropsychologia 40, 492-502.
16. Edwards, M. G., Humphreys, G. W., and Castiello, U. (2003). Motor facilitation following action observation: A behavioural study in prehensile action. Brain Cogn. 53, 495-502.
17. Fadiga, L., Craighero, L., and Olivier, E. (2005). Human motor cortex excitability during the perception of others' action. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 15, 213-218.
18. Fadiga, L., Fogassi, L., Pavesi, G., and Rizzolatti, G. (1995). Motor facilitation during action observation: a magnetic stimulation study. J. Neurophysiol. 73, 2608-2611.
19. Fan, Y-T., Decety, J., Yang, C-Y., Liu, J-L., and Chen, Y. (2010). Unbroken mirror neurons in autism spectrum disorders. J. Child. Psychol. Psychiatry 51, 981-988.
20. Gallese, V. (2006). Intentional attunement: A neurophysiological perspective on social cognition and its disruption in autism. Brain Res. Rev. 1079, 15-24.
21. Gillmeister, H., Catmur, C., Liepelt, R., Brass, M., and Heyes, C. M. (2008). Experience-based priming of body parts: A study of action imitation. Brain Res. 1217, 157-170.
22. Gowen, E., Stanley, J., and Miall, R. C. (2008). Movement interference in autism-spectrum disorder. Neuropsychologia 46, 1060-1068.
23. Grafton, S. T., and Hamilton, A. F. de C. (2007). Evidence for a distributed hierarchy of action representation in the brain. Hum. Mov. Sci. 26, 590-616.
24. Grecucci, A., Siugzdaite, R., Londero, D., Fabbro, F., Brambilla, P. and Rumiati, R.I. (in press). Emotional resonance deficits in autistic children. J. Autism Dev. Disord.
25. Hadjikhani, N., Joseph, R.M., Snyder, J., and Tager-Flusberg, H. (2006). Anatomical differences in the mirror neuron system and social cognition network in autism. Cereb. Cortex 16, 1276-1282.
26. Hardwick, R. M., and Edwards, M. G. (2012). Motor interference and facilitation arising from observed movement kinematics. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 65, 840-847.
27. Heyes, C. (2010). Where do mirror neurons come from? Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 34, 575-583.
28. Heyes, C. (2011). Automatic imitation. Psychol. Bull. 137, 463-483.
29. Heyes, C., Bird, G., Johnson, H., and Haggard, P. (2005). Experience modulates automatic imitation. Cogn. Brain Res. 22, 233-240.
30. Iacoboni, M., and Dapretto, M. (2006). The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 7, 942-951.
31. Kaiser, M. D., and Shiffrar, M. (2009). The visual perception of motion by observers with autism spectrum disorders: A review and synthesis. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 16, 761-777.
32. Kilner, J. M., Paulignan, Y., and Blakemore, S. J. (2003). An interference effect of observed biological movement on action. Curr. Biol. 13, 522-525.
33. Liepelt, R., and Brass, M. (2010). Top-down modulation of motor priming by belief about animacy. Exp. Psychol. 57, 221-227.
34. Longo, M. R., and Bertenthal, B. I. (2009). Attention modulates the specificity of automatic imitation to human actors. Exp. Brain Res. 192, 739-744.
35. Longo, M. R., Kosobud, A., and Bertenthal, B. I. (2008). Automatic imitation of biomechanically possible and impossible actions: Effects of priming movements versus goals. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 34, 489-501.
36. Maeda, F., Kleiner-Fisman, G., and Pascual-Leone, A. (2002). Motor facilitation while observing hand actions: specificity of the effect and role of observer's orientation. J. Neurophysiology 87, 1329-1335.
37. Martineau, J., Andersson, F., Barthélémy, C., Cottier, J. P., and Destrieux, C. (2010). Atypical activation of the mirror neuron system during perception of hand motion in autism. Brain Res. 1320, 168-175.
38. Martineau, J., Cochin, S., Magné, R., and Barthélémy, C. (2008). Impaired cortical activation in autistic children: is the mirror neuron system involved? Int. J. Psychophysiol. 68, 35-40.
39. Nishitani, N., Avikainen, S., and Hari, R. (2004). Abnormal imitation-related cortical activation sequences in Asperger's syndrome. Ann. Neurol. 55, 558-562.
40. Oberman, L. M., and Ramachandran, V. S. (2007). The simulating social mind: The role of simulation in the social and communicative deficits of autism spectrum disorders. Psychol. Bull. 133, 310-327.
41. Oberman, L. M., Hubbard, E. M., McCleery, J. P., Altschuler, E. L., Ramachandran, V. S., ans Pineda, J. A. (2005). EEG evidence for mirror neuron dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders. Cogn. Brain Res. 24, 190-198.
42. Oberman, L. M., Ramachandran, V. S., and Pineda, J. A. (2008). Modulation of mu suppression in children with autism spectrum disorders in response to familiar or unfamiliar stimuli: the mirror neuron hypothesis. Neuropsychologia 46, 1558-1565.
43. Pierno A. C., Mari, M., Lusher, D., and Castiello U. (2008). Robotic movement elicits visuomotor priming in children with autism. Neuropsychologia 46, 448-454.
44. Pierno, A. C., Mari, M., Georgiou, I., Glover, S., and Castiello, U. (2006). Failure to read motor intentions from gaze in children with autism. Neuropsychologia 44, 1483-1488.
45. Press, C. (2011). Action observation and robotic agents: Learning and anthropomorphism. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 35, 1410-1418.
46. Press, C., Gillmeister, H., and Heyes, C. (2007). Sensorimotor experience enhances automatic imitation of robotic action. Proc. Biol. Sci. 274, 2509-2514.
47. Raymaekers, R., Wiersema, J.R., and Roeyers, H. (2009). EEG study of the mirror neuron system in children with high functioning autism. Brain Res. 1304, 113-121.
48. Rizzolatti, G., and Sinigaglia, C. (2010). The functional role of the parieto-frontal mirror circuit: interpretations and misinterpretations. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 11, 264-274.
49. Schilbach, L., Eickhoff, S. B., Cieslik, E. C., Kuzmanovic, B., and Vogeley, K. (2011). Shall we do this together? Social gaze influences action control in a comparison group, but not in individuals with high-functioning autism. Autism 16, 151-162.
50. Spencer, J., O'Brien, J., Riggs, K., Braddick, O., Atkinson, J., and Wattam-Bell, J. (2000). Motion processing in autism: Evidence for a dorsal stream deficiency. NeuroReport 11, 2765-2767.
51. Stanley, J., Gowen, E., and Miall, R. C. (2007). Effects of agency on movement interference during observation of a moving dot stimulus. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 33, 915-926.
52. Strafella, A. P., and Paus, T. (2000). Modulation of cortical excitability during action observation: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Neuroreport 11, 2289-2292.
53. Tai, Y.F., Scherfler, C., Brooks, D.J., Sawamoto, N., and Castiello, U. (2004). The human premotor cortex is 'mirror' only for biological actions. Curr. Biol. 14, 117-120.
54. Théoret, H., Halligan, E., Kobayashi, M., Fregni, F., Tager-Flusberg, H., and Pascual-Leone, A. (2005). Impaired motor facilitation during action observation in individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Curr. Biol. 15, R84-85.
55. Tsermentseli, S., O'Brien, J. M., and Spencer, J. V. (2008). Comparison of form and motion coherence processing in autistic spectrum disorders and dyslexia. J. Autism Dev. Disord. 38, 1201-1210.
56. Urgesi, C., Moro, V., Candidi, M., and Aglioti, S. M. (2006). Mapping implied body actions in the human motor system. J. Neuroscience 26, 7942-7949.
57. Williams, J.H., Waiter, G.D., Gilchrist, A., Perrett, D.I., Murray, A.D., and Whiten, A. (2006). Neural mechanisms of imitation and 'mirror neuron' functioning in autistic spectrum disorder. Neuropsychologia 44, 610-621.