Figure 3
left panel. How condition taking into account the direction of the modulation. Heat maps showing the direction of modulation (howSign index) for participants (rows) and for each parameter (columns) of the how condition. Both TD group (top part) and ASD group (bottom part) are represented. Each cell represents the z-score of the Sign 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 negative modulation (Gentle < Rude) while red colors indicate positive modulation (Gentle > Rude) of each parameter. The z-scores are sorted within the columns in increasing order from top (negative modulation) to bottom (positive 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. How condition taking into account the direction of the modulation. 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 (howSign index), both for ASD (blue) and TD (green) groups. The howSign index takes into account the direction of modulation of each parameter in the how condition. Box plots placed below the horizontal basis of the clouds represent the median value for each group (blue: ASD; green: TD). Orange asterisks represent statistically significant difference between groups (inter-group analysis). Software used: Matlab, v.2018, www[point]mathworks[point]com.
