Tracing syndrome-specific trajectories of attention across the lifespan.
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This paper maintains that studies of atypical attention targeting one particular age group are unlikely to be informative of syndrome-specific deficits and their developmental changes. We propose a new approach to the study of attentional deficits in genetic disorders, arguing for tracing cross-syndrome developmental trajectories from infancy through childhood to adulthood. Few studies have incorporated a developmental approach to determine whether the pattern of deficits and proficiencies remains constant across developmental time. Fewer still have included a cross-syndrome perspective to address these issues. Focusing on the cognitive domain of attention and its component parts, and using a cross-syndrome developmental perspective, the present set of studies compared the trajectories of different aspects of attention in three developmental disorders: Fragile X syndrome (FXS), Down syndrome (DS) and Williams syndrome (WS). Hitherto, these syndromes have all been reported as displaying serious "attentional deficits" above those expected in the general population. We predicted that, when one considers in greater detail subcomponent processes of attention, then ostensibly common difficulties do not necessarily emerge from common developmental pathways. We addressed this question with two studies. The first focused on inhibitory control, orienting and selective attention in infants and toddlers, and the second concentrated on selective attention, sustained attention and inhibito…
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“…planning and organization, setshifting, and self-monitoring, all of which are critical categories of intellectual function needed for independent living (Cornish et al., 2007; Abbeduto et al., 2008; Trezise et al., 2008; Lanfranchi et al., 2010; Breckenridge et al., 2013; Costanzo et al., 2013).”
Background
- Authors
- CORNISH, K., SCERIF, G., & KARMILOFFSMITH, A.
- Affiliations
- McGill University (CA)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- CORNISH, K
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cortex
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 672-685
- ISSN
- 0010-9452 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2014269285
- Cited by
- 178
- References
- 5
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- FWCI
- 4.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cortex (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- Fogarty International Center (R21 TW 06761-01, R21TW006761)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Williams Syndrome Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Down syndrome and intellectual disability research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Keywords
- attention, developmental trajectories, fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, inhibitory control, orienting, selective attention, sustained attention, childhood
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Age Factors, Analysis of Variance, Attention, Child, Child Development, Developmental Disabilities, Child, Preschool, Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Humans, Infant, Inhibition, Psychological, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Reference Values, Saccades, Williams Syndrome, Recognition, Psychology
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