Regional gray matter volume is associated with motor imagery performance in children with and without developmental coordination disorder.

ABSTRACT: To date, the neurobiological principles that underlie poor motor imagery (MI) performance in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) remain poorly understood. To provide new insights into the neuro-structural correlates of MI performance in DCD, this study examined the association between the volume of gray matter regions and MI performance in a sample of 65 children (33 females, 24 children with DCD) aged 6 to 14 yr (mean age = 10.07, SD = 2.64). Implicit MI performance was assessed using a hand laterality judgment task. Regional volumes of frontal-motor, parietal, and cerebellar regions were derived from T1-weighted neuroimaging data. Relative to typically developing children, children with DCD showed less efficient MI performance on the hand laterality judgment task and

SUBMITTER: Mukherjee M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12517168 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature