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Global and Local processing in Williams Syndrome: Drawing versus Perceiving

Global and Local processing in Williams Syndrome: Drawing versus Perceiving It has been hypothesized that a local processing bias underlies overall visuospatial impairments in Williams syndrome (WS). However, recent studies have challenged this hypothesis by providing evidence against a local processing bias at the perceptual level. The aim of the present study was to further examine drawing and perceptual skills in children with WS using closely matched-hierarchical stimuli. In the drawing task children with WS exhibited a local processing bias. However, no significant preferential bias was found in the perceptual task. This indicates that children with WS do not systematically present a preferential bias for local information. Taken together the findings of the present study suggest that perceptual processing deficits per se are unlikely to explain local processing biases in visuoconstructive tasks often described in people with WS. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Child Neuropsychology Taylor & Francis

Global and Local processing in Williams Syndrome: Drawing versus Perceiving

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Taylor & Francis
Copyright
Copyright 2007 Psychology Press, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business
ISSN
1744-4136
eISSN
0929-7049
DOI
10.1080/09297040701346321
pmid
17852122
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Abstract

It has been hypothesized that a local processing bias underlies overall visuospatial impairments in Williams syndrome (WS). However, recent studies have challenged this hypothesis by providing evidence against a local processing bias at the perceptual level. The aim of the present study was to further examine drawing and perceptual skills in children with WS using closely matched-hierarchical stimuli. In the drawing task children with WS exhibited a local processing bias. However, no significant preferential bias was found in the perceptual task. This indicates that children with WS do not systematically present a preferential bias for local information. Taken together the findings of the present study suggest that perceptual processing deficits per se are unlikely to explain local processing biases in visuoconstructive tasks often described in people with WS.

Journal

Child NeuropsychologyTaylor & Francis

Published: May 13, 2008

Keywords: Williams syndrome; Local; Global; Perception; Production

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