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Christine Assaiante

Christine Assaiante

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Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
5740
World Ranking
8352
National Ranking
386

Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
5669
World Ranking
8627
National Ranking
81

Overview

Christine Assaiante is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's notable topics of study include:

  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Reading and Literacy Development

Christine Assaiante has contributed research articles published in several key venues, including:

  • Children
  • European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
  • Cerebral Cortex Communications
  • Brain Sciences
  • Neuroscience

Significant recent publications include:

  • Are morphological and structural MRI characteristics related to specific cognitive impairments in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) children?, 2020, European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
  • Specific Learning Disorder in Children and Adolescents, a Scoping Review on Motor Impairments and Their Potential Impacts, 2022, Children
  • Intrinsic Cortico-Subcortical Functional Connectivity in Developmental Dyslexia and Developmental Coordination Disorder, 2020, Cerebral Cortex Communications
  • Neurodevelopment of Posture-movement Coordination from Late Childhood to Adulthood as Assessed From Bimanual Load-lifting Task: An Event-related Potential Study, 2021, Neuroscience
  • Phoneme Representation and Articulatory Impairment: Insights from Adults with Comorbid Motor Coordination Disorder and Dyslexia, 2023, Brain Sciences

Frequent collaborators of Christine Assaiante include:

  • Marianne Vaugoyeau
  • Fabien Cignetti
  • Federico Nemmi
  • Patrice Péran
  • Yves Chaix

Their work spans several specialized fields with a focus on how motor development and coordination relate to cognitive and sensory processes in children and adults. The research outputs cover developmental disorders, motor impairments, brain connectivity patterns, and postural control mechanisms. The continued engagement in these areas underlines a multidisciplinary approach integrating psychology, neuroscience, and clinical medicine.

Best Publications

  • Development of postural control in healthy children: a functional approach.

    Christine Assaiante;Sophie Mallau;Sébastien Viel;Marianne Jover

  • An ontogenetic model for the sensorimotor organization of balance control in humans

    C. Assaiante;B. Amblard

  • Motor control and children with autism: deficit of anticipatory function?

    Christina Schmitz;Joëlle Martineau;Catherine Barthélémy;Christine Assaiante

  • Ontogenesis of head stabilization in space during locomotion in children: influence of visual cues.

    C. Assaiante;B. Amblard

  • Development of locomotor balance control in healthy children.

    Christine Assaiante

  • Goal directed locomotion and balance control in autistic children.

    S. Vernazza-Martin;N. Martin;A. Vernazza;A. Lepellec-Muller

  • Impaired vertical postural control and proprioceptive integration deficits in Parkinson’s disease

    M. Vaugoyeau;S. Viel;C. Assaiante;B. Amblard

  • Recruitment of both the mirror and the mentalizing networks when observing social interactions depicted by point-lights: a neuroimaging study.

    Laurie Centelles;Christine Assaiante;Bruno Nazarian;Jean-Luc Anton

  • Discrete visual samples may control locomotor equilibrium and foot positioning in man.

    Christine Assaiante;Alain R. Marchand;Bernard Amblard

  • Body schema building during childhood and adolescence: a neurosensory approach.

    Christine Assaiante;F. Barlaam;F. Cignetti;M. Vaugoyeau

  • Development of postural adjustment during gait initiation: kinematic and EMG analysis.

    Christine Assaiante;Marjorie Woollacott;Bernard Amblard

  • Building anticipatory postural adjustment during childhood: a kinematic and electromyographic analysis of unloading in children from 4 to 8 years of age.

    Christina Schmitz;Nicolas Martin;Christine Assaiante

  • Development of Anticipatory Orienting Strategies During Locomotor Tasks in Children

    R Grasso;C Assaiante;P Prévost;A Berthoz

  • Locomotor skills and balance strategies in adolescents idiopathic scoliosis.

    Sophie Mallau;Gérard Bollini;Jean-Luc Jouve;Christine Assaiante

  • Age-related differences in cognitive and postural dual-task performance.

    Isabelle Olivier;Rémy Cuisinier;Marianne Vaugoyeau;Vincent Nougier

  • Adolescence: a transient period of proprioceptive neglect in sensory integration of postural control.

    Sébastien Viel;Marianne Vaugoyeau;Christine Assaiante

  • A statistical approach to sensorimotor strategies: conjugate cross-correlations.

    Bernard Amblard;Christine Assaiante;Hamid Lekhel;Alain R. Marchand

  • Proprioceptive contribution of postural control as assessed from very slow oscillations of the support in healthy humans.

    M. Vaugoyeau;S. Viel;B. Amblard;J.P. Azulay

  • Postural Strategies and Sensory Integration: No Turning Point between Childhood and Adolescence

    Sophie Mallau;Marianne Vaugoyeau;Christine Assaiante

  • Voluntary head stabilization in space during oscillatory trunk movements in the frontal plane performed in weightlessness

    B. Amblard;C. Assaiante;J.-C. Fabre;L. Mouchnino

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Nougier
Vincent Nougier Joseph Fourier University
Christine Deruelle
Christine Deruelle Aix-Marseille University
Thierry Hasbroucq
Thierry Hasbroucq Aix-Marseille University
Guillaume S. Masson
Guillaume S. Masson Aix-Marseille University
Jean-René Cazalets
Jean-René Cazalets University of Bordeaux
Alain Berthoz
Alain Berthoz Collège de France
Wiltrud Berger
Wiltrud Berger University of Freiburg

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