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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2016

Developmental Coordination Disorder Affects the Processing of Action-Related Verbs.

Giovanni Mirabella, Sara Del Signore, Daniel Lakens, Roberto Averna, Roberta Penge, Flavia Capozzi

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Giovanni MirabellaDepartment of Anatomy, Histology, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedics, University of Rome "Sapienza"Rome, Italy; IRCCS Neuromed HospitalPozzilli, Italy.
Sara Del SignoreDepartment of Pediatrics and Neuropsichiatry of Children and Adolescents, University of Rome "Sapienza" Rome, Italy.
Daniel LakensSchool of Innovation Sciences, Department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven Netherlands.
Roberto AvernaDepartment of Pediatrics and Neuropsichiatry of Children and Adolescents, University of Rome "Sapienza"Rome, Italy; IRCCS Children Hospital Bambino GesùRome, Italy.
Roberta PengeDepartment of Pediatrics and Neuropsichiatry of Children and Adolescents, University of Rome "Sapienza" Rome, Italy.
Flavia CapozziDepartment of Pediatrics and Neuropsichiatry of Children and Adolescents, University of Rome "Sapienza" Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · ITEindhoven University of Technology · NLIstituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITIstituto Neurologico Mediterraneo · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Processing action-language affects the planning and execution of motor acts, which suggests that the motor system might be involved in action-language understanding. However, this claim is hotly debated. For the first time, we compared the processing of action-verbs in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), a disease that specifically affects the motor system, with children with a typical development (TD). We administered two versions of a go/no-go task in which verbs expressing either hand, foot or abstract actions were presented. We found that only when the semantic content of a verb has to be retrieved, TD children showed an increase in reaction times if the verb involved the same effector used to give the response. In contrast, DCD patients did not show any difference between verb categories irrespective of the task. These findings suggest that the pathological functioning of the motor system in individuals with DCD also affects language processing.

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action languagearm reaching movementdevelopmental coordination disorderembodied theory of languagesemantics

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