Visuoperceptual Impairment in Children with NF1: From Early Visual Processing to Procedural Strategies.

ABSTRACT: Visual-spatial impairment has long been considered a hallmark feature of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). No study investigating the cognitive and neuropsychological profile of NF1 used the Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT) task as the primary measure of visual-perceptual abilities taking into consideration all functions involved including the strategic processing style. We compared 18 children with NF1, 17 siblings (S), and 18 typically developing children (TD) at intelligence scale and RCFT copy, recall, and recognition trials; we also evaluated the copy strategy as a measure of a visual-processing style. Children with NF1 had normal total IQ, with cognitive weaknesses in the perceptual organization and working memory in line with the existing literature. At the RCFT copy, immediate and dela

SUBMITTER: Bulgheroni S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6348799 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature