CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM IN 3-9 MONTH OLD INFANTS USING THE

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中的一个 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子项目和 研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。列出的机构是 研究中心，而研究中心不一定是研究者所在的机构。 这项研究是为了评估儿童在将头靠在一个名为BabySQUID的神经成像系统的头枕上时观察和模仿一系列手势。我们正在使用脑磁图[MEG]来收集发育正常的儿童以及患有自闭症等发育障碍的儿童的大脑功能数据，以确定大脑中是否存在与运动相关的发育部分。我们想知道异常的脑功能是否归因于查尔兹无法模仿观察到的手势，或者这是否可能对自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童的社交或运动障碍有任何影响。结果可以帮助提供有关大脑如何产生动作的观察和执行的重要信息。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. This study is being done to evaluate children as they observe and imitate a series of hand gestures as they rest their head on the headrest of a neuroimaging system called BabySQUID. We are using magnetoencephalography [MEG] to collect brain function data from normally developing children, as well as from children with such developmental disorders as autism, to determine if there are developing parts of the brain that are associated with motion. We would like to find out whether or not abnormal brain function attributes to a childs inability to mimic observed gestures, or whether this may have any influence upon social or motor impairments that occur in children diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders [ASDs]. The results can help provide important information about how observation and performance of an action is generated in the brain.