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Rett syndrome: an eye-tracking study of attention and recognition memory.
Developmental medicine and child neurology - 1 Apr 2013
Rose Susan A, Djukic Aleksandra, Jankowski Jeffery J, Feldman Judith F, Fishman Iris, Valicenti-McDermott Maria
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AIM: The aim of this study was to examine attention and recognition memory for faces and patterns in Rett syndrome, a severely disabling neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the X-linked MECP2 gene. METHOD: Because Rett syndrome impairs speech and hand use, precluding most neuropsychological testing, the visual paired-comparison paradigm (VPC) was used, together with eye tracking. In the VPC, two...
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