Brief report: Visuo-spatial guidance of movement during gesture imitation and mirror drawing in children with autism spectrum disorders

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 985-995

  Salowitz, Nicole M G ^a   Eccarius, Petra ^b   Karst, Jeffrey ^c   Carson, Audrey ^c   Schohl, Kirsten ^c   Stevens, Sheryl ^c   Van Hecke, Amy Vaughan ^c   Scheidt, Robert A ^a,d,e  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Marquette University   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Goal directed movement; Motor control; Sensorimotor transformation; Visuospatial information processing

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORIENTATION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUO SPATIAL GUIDANCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; FEMALE; GESTURES; HAND; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84879461860     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-012-1631-8     Document Type: Article

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