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

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

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...

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Main Authors: Antonino Errante, Francesca Bozzetti, Silvia Sghedoni, Barbara Bressi, Stefania Costi, Girolamo Crisi, Adriano Ferrari, Leonardo Fogassi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
cerebral palsy
motor imagery
mental chronometry
fMRI
motor simulation
grasping
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2019.00837/full

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