Background Hand skill development or mastery has a huge influence on children's early
development and participation in everyday activities. Assessment of difficulties with …

Advanced Analysis of Motor Development explores how research is conducted in testing
major issues and questions in motor development. It also looks at the evolution of research …

Abstract Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is among the most prevalent neurodevelopmental
disorders, yet the current diagnostic procedures rely on behavioral analyses and interviews …

The study was aimed at better clarifying whether action execution impairment in autism
depends mainly on disruptions either in feedforward mechanisms or in feedback-based …

This study assesses the handwriting of isolated cursive letters in five-year-old children and
the effect of a modification in visual feedback. Sixty-four children copied twelve cursive …

Abstract Language comprehension requires a simulation process that taps perception and
action systems. How specific is this simulation? To address this question, participants …

Background: Practitioners need more sensitive measures to quantify reaching movement for
judgement of the treatment effects and reflecting the degrees of motor impairment in upper …

Functional reaching is impaired in dystonia. Here, we analyze upper extremity kinematics to
quantify timing and coordination abnormalities during unimanual reach-to-grasp movements …

Grasping is a prototype of human motor coordination. Nevertheless, it is not known what
determines the typical movement patterns of grasping. One way to approach this issue is by …

Humans appear to be sensitive to relative small changes in their surroundings. These
changes are often initially perceived as irrelevant, but they can cause significant changes in …