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Alteration of body representation in typical and atypical motor development

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Abstract Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) impacts the quality of life and ability to perform coordinated actions in 5% of school‐aged children. The quality of body representations of individuals with DCD has been questioned, but never assessed. We hypothesize that children with DCD have imprecise body representations in the sensory and motor domains. Twenty neurotypical children, seventeen children with DCD (8–12 years old) and twenty neurotypical adults (25–45 years old) performed both sensory and motor body representation tasks: a limb identification and a limb movement task. We observed lower accuracy in the sensory task but not in the motor task. In both tasks, we observe a larger amplitude of errors, or synkinesis, in children with DCD than in neurotypical children. In neurotypical children, accuracy was lower than in neurotypical adults in the motor and sensory task, and the amplitude of sensory errors and synkinesis was higher than in neurotypical adults. Using a linear regression model, we showed that sensory accuracy is a good predictor of synkinesis production, and that synkinesis production is a good predictor of sensory accuracy, as can be expected by the perception‐action loop. Results support the hypothesis of an imprecision of body representation in DCD. We suggest that this imprecision arises from noise in the body representation used at the level of internal models of action. Future studies may assess whether slower plasticity of body representations, initial imprecision, or both may account for this observation. At the clinical level, prevention strategies targeting body representation in early childhood are strategically important to limit such impairments.
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hal-04299147 , version 1 (22-11-2023)

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Thomas Gauduel, Camille Blondet, Sibylle Gonzalez-Monge, James Bonaiuto, Alice Gomez. Alteration of body representation in typical and atypical motor development. Developmental Science, 2023, ⟨10.1111/desc.13455⟩. ⟨hal-04299147⟩
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