TY - JOUR
T1 - Altered evoked responses for motor-related words in children with upper limb motor impairments
AU - Bredikhin, Dimitri
AU - Agranovich, Olga
AU - Ulanov, Maxim
AU - Koriakina, Maria
AU - Shestakova, Anna N.
AU - Kadieva, Dzerassa
AU - Kopytin, Grigory
AU - Ermolovich, Evgenia
AU - Bermúdez-Margaretto, Beatriz
AU - Shtyrov, Yury
AU - Jääskeläinen, Iiro P.
AU - Blagovechtchenski, Evgeny
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Objective: Obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP) and amyoplasia, the classical type of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, manifest themselves as highly limited mobility of the upper limb. At the same time, according to the embodiment cognition theories, the motor impairments might lead to the alteration of cognitive functions in OBPP/amyoplasia patients. In the current study, we examined whether OBPP/amyoplasia children exhibit altered processing of motor-related verbs. Methods: We conducted a case-control study using clinical population and control children. Oddball series were used to elicit mismatch negativity (MMN) EEG responses. The series consisted of limb-related verbs (deviant stimuli) and matched pseudowords (standard stimuli). 27 patients and 32 control children were included in the analysis. Results: We showed that MMN waveforms differed between OBPP/amyoplasia children and their control peers in the frontal and temporal electrodes when the stimuli contained hand-related verbs. In particular, the MMN peak latency in the OBPP/amyoplasia children was significantly delayed as compared with the healthy controls. At the same time, neither series with leg-related verbs nor series of pseudowords resulted in statistically significant differences. Conclusions: Our findings suggest altered processing of hand-related verbs in OBPP/amyoplasia children with hand-related disabilities. Significance: Our results contribute to the growing evidence in support of the theory of embodied cognition, which proposes that various domains of cognition are shaped by bodily interactions with the environment.
AB - Objective: Obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP) and amyoplasia, the classical type of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, manifest themselves as highly limited mobility of the upper limb. At the same time, according to the embodiment cognition theories, the motor impairments might lead to the alteration of cognitive functions in OBPP/amyoplasia patients. In the current study, we examined whether OBPP/amyoplasia children exhibit altered processing of motor-related verbs. Methods: We conducted a case-control study using clinical population and control children. Oddball series were used to elicit mismatch negativity (MMN) EEG responses. The series consisted of limb-related verbs (deviant stimuli) and matched pseudowords (standard stimuli). 27 patients and 32 control children were included in the analysis. Results: We showed that MMN waveforms differed between OBPP/amyoplasia children and their control peers in the frontal and temporal electrodes when the stimuli contained hand-related verbs. In particular, the MMN peak latency in the OBPP/amyoplasia children was significantly delayed as compared with the healthy controls. At the same time, neither series with leg-related verbs nor series of pseudowords resulted in statistically significant differences. Conclusions: Our findings suggest altered processing of hand-related verbs in OBPP/amyoplasia children with hand-related disabilities. Significance: Our results contribute to the growing evidence in support of the theory of embodied cognition, which proposes that various domains of cognition are shaped by bodily interactions with the environment.
KW - Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
KW - EEG
KW - Embodied cognition
KW - Hand movements
KW - Mismatch negativity
KW - Obstetric brachial plexus palsy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.clinph.2022.10.010
DO - 10.1016/j.clinph.2022.10.010
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36395708
AN - SCOPUS:85141950347
SN - 1388-2457
VL - 145
SP - 11
EP - 21
JO - Clinical Neurophysiology
JF - Clinical Neurophysiology
ER -