Body schema building during childhood and adolescence: A neurosensory approach

Hand Functioning in Children with Cerebral Palsy

“…MBRs refer to abstract representations of one’s body derived from sensory inputs, like TD or P, but capable to reciprocally influence primary tactile processing and to modulate the perception of external objects that may be body-referenced, thereby playing a role in perception and/or action (57). MBRs develop slowly during ontogenesis in healthy children (58) and do present abnormalities in cortical activation in children with CP (59, 60). This suggests that children with CP may be unable to fully integrate external stimuli into high-level sensorimotor processes (such as MBRs), which may disturb motor output.…”

Movement and Language Development as an Early Childhood Twin Strategy: A Systematic Review

“…Th is is also supported by Gogate and Hollich (2010), Iverson (2010), and Hockema and Smith (2009); therefore, it is justifi able to use not only embodiment-type techniques, but also theatrical enact- ment gestures, as positively tested by Toumpaniari et al (2015) and already suggested by Hostetter (2011) when analyzing the works of Cohen and Otterbein (1992) and Engelkamp and Cohen (1991). For Assaiante, Barlaam, Cignetti and Vaugoyeau (2014) the information received from the environment modifi es and generates new interaction possibilities, defi ning and shaping the various reference frameworks for the subject, including motor and body frameworks; for Pulvermüller and Fadiga (2010) the latter is important both for the execution and understanding of the actions and the language used to describe them. Oudgenoeg-Paz, Leseman and Volman 2015have analysed this possibility and hypothesize that exploration acts as a mediator between the achievement of the motor stages and the development of spatial cognition and language, eliminating the possibility that such developments are simply to be attributed to the general maturation process, given that the developmental relationships between motor skills, exploration, cognition and spatial language are highly specifi c. Perry, Samuelson, Malloy and Schiff er (2014) have demonstrated that specifi c categories are better acquired in specifi c contexts, and therefore stimulating environments full of opportunities can be used in a targeted way by competent subjects to off er focused and specifi c learning possibilities.…”

Age-related kinematic performance must be considered during fast head-neck rotation target task in individuals aged from 8 to 85 years old

“…These kinematic differences were observed during the DidRen Laser test, showing its capacity to discriminate agerelated differences. Children-age limit of 14 years was based on need to ensure of an incomplete maturation of the sensorimotor representation 17 . Moreover, we decided to split adults participants into two adults groups because neck pain increase with age and is most common around the fifth decade of life 1 .…”

“…Lack of sensorimotor control of head-neck complex can be explained 15,16 by degeneration of vestibular, visual and neuromuscular functions due to aging or even neck pain in adults and due to immaturity of the central and peripheral nervous and musculoskeletal system in healthy children 17,18 . and "The Fly" 21 use a tracking system placed above the head to respectively measure the accuracy of the ability to follow a virtual target (the fly).…”