Explicit Motor Imagery for Grasping Actions in Children With Spastic Unilateral Cerebral Palsy.

ABSTRACT: Background: Motor Imagery (MI) refers to mental simulation of a motor action without producing any overt movement. Previous studies showed that children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy (UCP) are impaired in implicit MI, as demonstrated by the performance of Hand Laterality Judgment tasks. The aim of this study was to examine the specificity of explicit MI deficits in UCP children. Methods: A group of UCP children (n = 10; aged 9-14) performed a mental chronometry task consisting in grasping an object and placing it into a container, or in imagining to perform the same action. As control, a group of typically developing (TD) children, matched by age, performed the same task. Movement durations for executed and imagined trials were recorded. A subgroup of 7 UCP children a

SUBMITTER: Errante A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6692593 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature