Speed-accuracy trade-offs in action perception, motor imagery, and execution of hand movements in autistic and non-autistic adults.

ABSTRACT: Action perception, execution, and imagery share motor-cognitive processes. Given prevalent sensory and motor coordination difficulties in autism, the processes of action perception and imagery may also be altered. This study investigated whether autistic adults can engage in motor imagery by testing potential differences in executing, perceiving, and imagining hand movements between autistic and non-autistic adults. Twenty autistic individuals and twenty age- and IQ-matched controls completed execution, imagination, and perception tasks using a Fitts' Law paradigm in an online session. For the execution and imagination tasks, participants performed or imagined making aiming movements between two targets. For the action perception task, participants indicated whether they could perform as a

SUBMITTER: Bai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12006536 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature