2025/06/20 by Julio Ernesto Pérez-Parra, Francia Restrepo-de-Mejía, Francia Restrepo de Mejía
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Action Observation and Synchronization #Motor Control and Adaptation #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/09593985.2025.2517836
openalex publication_date 2025/06/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15
BACKGROUND: This study is based on the embodied cognition dimension of third-generation cognitive models, which postulate that cognition is an embodied, extended, embedded, and enactive phenomenon (4E Theory). OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there are significant differences in working memory between groups of people with sensorimotor disorders due to non-cortical neurological lesions and healthy people matched for sex, age and education. METHOD: A retrospective cohort study was conducted. Working memory (outcome) was compared between a cohort of individuals with sensorimotor disorders and a control group of healthy individuals matched for sex, age, and education. Each group included 41 individuals between 19 and 55 years of age. The following tests were performed: Working Memory Index of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IV (WMI-WAIS IV), Trail Making Test - part B (TMT-B), Corsi Block-Tapping Test and Cognitive Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). RESULTS: = .050). Better performance was demonstrated in the neuropsychological tests of working memory in the control group: shorter time in TMT-B (intersample difference: 27 seconds) and better score in WMI-WAIS-IV (intersample difference: 1 point). Likewise, the median of their ERP latencies was lower and the N200-P300 amplitude was higher (intersample difference: 0.95 µV). CONCLUSIONS: These intersample comparisons could be indicative of the bidirectional influence of motor ability and cognitive performance, particularly related to working memory and psychomotor speed.