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Event-related Potentials During Target-response Tasks to Study Cognitive Processes of Upper Limb Use in Children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy

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[Children with developmental coordination disorder have difficulty with action representation].

Carl Gabbard¹, Priscila Cacola

¹Texas AM University, College Station, Texas, Estados Unidos. c-gabbard@tamu.edu

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Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) struggle with motor skills due to internal modeling deficits. This review explores motor imagery as a method to understand action representation in DCD.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Motor Control

Context:

Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) affects children's perceptual-motor and daily living skills.
Children with DCD exhibit clumsy, uncoordinated movements impacting activities of daily living and sports.
Limited research suggests an internal modeling deficit hypothesis for DCD.

Purpose:

To review motor imagery as a method for examining action representation in children with DCD.
To discuss research methods and potential brain structures involved in action representation.
To describe a unique paradigm: estimation of reachability via motor imagery in DCD.

Summary:

The internal modeling deficit hypothesis posits limitations in generating and monitoring action representations in children with DCD.
Motor imagery offers insights into action representation processes.
This review focuses on motor imagery methods and their application to DCD.

Impact:

Enhances understanding of the underlying mechanisms of DCD.
Provides a framework for developing targeted interventions for motor deficits.
Contributes to the fields of developmental neuroscience and motor control research.