title: STIMA: a short screening test for ideo-motor apraxia, selective for action meaning and bodily district.
abstract: We propose STIMA, a short test for ideo-motor apraxia, allowing us to quantify the apraxic deficit according to action meaning and affected body segment. STIMA is based on a neurocognitive model holding that there are two processes involved in action imitation (i.e., a semantic route for recognizing and imitating known gestures, and a direct route for reproducing new gestures). The test allows to identify which imitative process has been selectively impaired by brain damage (direct vs. semantic route) and possible deficits depending on the body segment involved (hand/limb vs. hand/fingers). N = 111 healthy participants were administered with an imitation task in two separated blocks of known and new gestures. In each block, half of the gestures were performed mainly with the proximal part of the upper limb and the remaining half with the distal one. It resulted in 18 known gestures (nine proximal and nine distal) and 18 new gestures (nine proximal and nine distal) for a total of 36. Each gesture was presented up to a maximum of two times. Detailed criteria are used to assign the final imitation score. Cut offs, equivalent scores and main percentile scores were computed for each subscale. Participants imitated better known than new gestures, and proximal better than distal gestures. Age influenced performance on all subscales, while education only affected one subscale. STIMA is easy and quick to administer, and compared to previous tests, it offers important information for planning adequate rehabilitation programs based on the functional locus of the deficit.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 5, 50127, Bologna, Italy, alessia.tessari@unibo.it.
authors.forename: Alessia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tessari
authors.forename: Alessio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Toraldo
authors.forename: Alberta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lunardelli
authors.forename: Antonietta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zadini
authors.forename: Raffaella Ida
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Rumiati
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D020240:Apraxia, Ideomotor / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*
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