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Cowie, Dorothy; Braddick, Oliver; Atkinson, Janette – Developmental Science, 2012
Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) have impairments in visuospatial tasks and in manual visuomotor control, consistent with parietal and cerebellar abnormalities. Here we examined whether individuals with WS also have difficulties in visually controlling whole-body movements. We investigated visual control of stepping down at a change of…
Descriptors: Children, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception, Perceptual Motor Coordination
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Nardini, Marko; Atkinson, Janette; Braddick, Oliver; Burgess, Neil – Developmental Science, 2008
Williams syndrome (WS) is a genetic disorder associated with severe visuocognitive impairment. Individuals with WS also report difficulties with everyday wayfinding. To study the development of body-, environment-, and object-based spatial frames of reference in WS, we tested 45 children and adults with WS on a search task in which the participant…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Developmental Stages, Child Development, Spatial Ability