Reorganization of the Action Observation Network and Sensory-Motor System in Children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: An fMRI Study

Figure 5

Lateralization index (LI) for the observation of all object-related actions versus BASELINE for each UCP child, plotted against his/her clinical scores (MUUL scale on panel a; AHA scale on b). Children were represented with different colours and symbols according to the classification of their lesions (type I = red circles, type II = green squares, type III = blue triangles). Data were fitted with a standard linear function. Considering all the subjects, the correlations are not significant (Pearson’s value , for MUUL; , for AHA; pink dotted line). They become significant when only children with lesions of type I and type II are used in the fit (, for MUUL; , , for AHA; cyan solid line), due to big variability of data from children with type III lesion.

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