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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2025

Children with autistic spectrum disorder can imagine actions- what can this reveal about the Broken Mirror Hypothesis?

Jessica Galli, Laura Dusi, Gioacchino Garofalo, Alessandra Brizzi, Michela Gritti, Federica Polo, Elisa Fazzi, Giovanni Buccino

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Jessica GalliDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Laura DusiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Gioacchino GarofaloDepartment of Philosophy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Alessandra BrizziDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Michela GrittiUnit of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Federica PoloUnit of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Elisa FazziDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Giovanni BuccinoFaculty of Medicine and Surgery, University "Vita-Salute" San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

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Abstract

Objective: This study investigated whether children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can imagine object directed actions similarly to their typically developed (TD) peers. Study design: We tested the ability to imagine goal directed actions in children with ASD ( Results: Both groups performed similarly in the questionnaire and in the novel MI task, where they showed the same error rate. Errors distribution suggests that all children exploited a similar strategy to solve the task, being errors mainly distributed in judging the later frame. Conclusion: These findings support the view that children with ASD can imagine actions similarly to their TD peers. These results do not fully support the Broken Mirror Hypothesis and may encourage the use of MI as a cognitive strategy in the rehabilitation of autism.

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autism spectrum disorderBroken Mirror Hypothesismirror neuron systemmotor imagerymotor system

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PMCPMC11798804

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