Figure 2
Left panel. Absolute indexes of modulation for the how and the what conditions. Heat maps showing amount of modulation (|how| index, left part; |what| index, right part) for participants (rows) and for each parameter (columns). Both TD group (top part) and ASD group (bottom part) are represented. Each cell represents the z-score of the absolute indexes computed through standardization, that allows to compare modulation of parameters based on different measurement units (e.g., spatial parameters, temporal parameters). Blue colors indicate low modulation (slight absolute differences), while red colors indicate high modulation (strong absolute differences) of the parameter. The z-scores are sorted within the columns in increasing order from top (slightest modulation) to bottom (strongest modulation); this facilitates the identification of patterns within each group but precludes the possibility to perform intra-subject comparison being the values relative to a single participant not on the same row (for details, see Supplementary Figure S1). Right panel. Absolute indexes of modulation for the how and the what conditions. Raincloud plots showing data distributions (“cloud”) and individual data jittered (“rain”) for Movement Time (MT) (top part) and maximum displacement along X axis (MaxDX; X axis corresponding to the dorso-ventral axis of the body) (bottom part) for the how condition (|how| index) and the what condition (|what| index), for both ASD (blue) and TD (green) groups. Box plots placed below the horizontal basis of the clouds represent the median value for each group (blue: ASD; green: TD), for both the how and the what conditions. Green asterisks represent statistically significant differences between conditions (how vs. what) within the TD group (intra-group analysis), and orange asterisk represents statistically significant difference between groups (inter-group analysis). Software used: Matlab, v.2018, www[point]mathworks[point]com.
