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ArticleScientific reports2018

Prospective motor control obeys to idiosyncratic strategies in autism.

Andrea Cavallo, Luca Romeo, Caterina Ansuini, Jessica Podda, Francesca Battaglia, Edvige Veneselli, Massimiliano Pontil, Cristina Becchio

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Reduced Hand Specialization and Idiosyncratic Visuomotor Strategies in Autism During Naturalistic Object Manipulation.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026
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  9. Intersecting kinematic encoding and readout of intention in autism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  10. Differences in the production and perception of communicative kinematics in autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2021
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  13. Neurotypical individuals fail to understand action vitality form in children with autism spectrum disorder.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Andrea CavalloDepartment of Psychology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3717-3760
Luca RomeoComputational Statistics and Machine Learning, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy.
Caterina AnsuiniCognition, Motion & Neuroscience Unit, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy.
Jessica PoddaCognition, Motion & Neuroscience Unit, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy.
Francesca BattagliaChild Neuropsychiatric Unit, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy.
Edvige VeneselliChild Neuropsychiatric Unit, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy.
Massimiliano PontilComputational Statistics and Machine Learning, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy.
Cristina BecchioDepartment of Psychology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy. cristina.becchio@iit.it.

Funding

Compagnia di San Paolo CSTO167915EC | European Research Council (ERC) 312919European Research Council 312919
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disturbance of primary prospective motor control has been proposed to contribute to faults in higher mind functions of individuals with autism spectrum disorder, but little research has been conducted to characterize prospective control strategies in autism. In the current study, we applied pattern-classification analyses to kinematic features to verify whether children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing (TD) children altered their initial grasp in anticipation of self- and other-actions. Results indicate that children with autism adjusted their behavior to accommodate onward actions. The way they did so, however, varied idiosyncratically from one individual to another, which suggests that previous characterizations of general lack of prospective control strategies may be overly simplistic. These findings link abnormalities in anticipatory control with increased variability and offer insights into the difficulties that individuals with ASD may experience in social interaction.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderChildChild DevelopmentFemaleHumansMaleMotor Cortex

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PMID30209274
PMCPMC6135837

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