Action

How can we understand autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders by looking at variability in motor behavior and actions?

Relevant Publications

Thompson, A., Murphy, D. G. M., Dell’Acqua, F., Ecker, C., McAlonan, G., Howells, H., Baron-Cohen, S., Lai, M. C., Lombardo, M. V., MRC AIMS Consortium, Catani, M. (2017). Impaired communication between the motor and somatosensory homunculus is associated with poor manual dexterity in autism. Biological Psychiatry, 81, 211-219.

Moseley, R.L., Mohr, B., Lombardo, M.V., Baron-Cohen, S., Hauk, O., & Pulvermüller, F. (2013). Brain and behavioural correlates of action semantics in autism. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 725.

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Michael Lombardo
Principal Investigator

Principal Investigator, Laboratory for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)

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