Article
Visuospatial skills and their association with math performance in girls with fragile X or Turner syndrome.
Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence - 1 Apr 2006
Mazzocco Michèle M M, Singh Bhatia Neha, Lesniak-Karpiak Katarzyna
Abstract excerpt
The present study was designed to assess object identification ("what") and location ("where") skills among girls with fragile X or Turner syndrome and girls with neither disorder. Participants completed standardized subtests of visual perception and tasks of visuospatial "what" and "where" memory. Girls with fragile X had average performance on most object identification tasks, yet 53% failed to accurately...
Topics
- Child
- Cognition Disorders
- Female
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Humans
- Mathematics
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Perceptual Disorders
- Phenotype
- Prevalence
- Space Perception
- Turner Syndrome
- Visual Perception