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On body schema plasticity in dyspraxia, with Marie Martel

January 23, 2023 • SalvesenResearch • Season 4 • Episode 7

Marie Martel is a cognitive neuroscientist at Royal Holloway, University of London, who specialises in understanding how the brain controls imagined and real movements performed with the hand or a tool, and how this develops with age. During this podcast she chats to Lou about a piece of work looking at how children with Dyspraxia / Developmental Coordination Disorder use tools to perform movements and how this interacts with the representation they have of their body.

If you want to know more about Marie’s research, you can follow her on Twitter @Martel_MF or have a look at her website.

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The paper discussed in this episode is:
Martel, M., Boulenger, V., Koun, E., Finos, L., Farnè, A., & Roy, A. C. (2022). Body schema plasticity is altered in Developmental Coordination Disorder. Neuropsychologia, 166, 108136.