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Cornoldi, C, Ficili, P, Giofré, D, Mammarella, IC and Mirandola, C (2011) Imaginative Representations of Two- and Three-Dimensional Matrices in Children with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 31 (1). pp. 53-62. ISSN 0276-2366
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Cornoldi, C., Ficili, P., Giofrè, D., Mammarella, I. C., & Mirandola, C. (2011). Imaginative Representations of Two- and Three-Dimensional Matrices in Children with Nonverbal Le.pdf - Accepted Version Download (605kB) | Preview |
Abstract
Children with non-verbal learning disabilities (NLD) are characterized by high verbal and poor non-verbal intelligence, poor cognitive abilities, school difficulties, and—sometimes—depressive symptoms. NLD children lack visuospatial working memory, but it is not clear whether they encounter difficulties in mental imagery tasks. In the present study, NLD adolescents without depressive symptoms, depressed adolescents without NLD symptoms, and a control group were administered a mental imagery task requiring them to imagine to move along the cells of a 2-D (5 × 5) or 3-D (3 × 3 × 3) matrix. Results showed that NLD adolescents had difficulty at performing the imagery task when a 3-D pattern was involved. It is suggested that 3-D mental imagery tasks tap visuospatial processes which are weak in NLD individuals. In addition, their poor cognitive performance cannot be attributed to a depressive state, as the depressed group had a performance similar to that of controls.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Divisions: | Natural Sciences & Psychology (closed 31 Aug 19) |
| Publisher: | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2016 12:09 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 13:33 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.2190/IC.31.1-2.f |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/2758 |
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