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AMERICAN JOURNAL ON MENTAL RETARDATION
Volume 113, Issue 5, Pages 343-355Publisher
AMER ASSOC MENTAL RETARDATION
DOI: 10.1352/2008.113:342-355
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- EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [R01HD035684, P30HD015052] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD035684, P30HD15052, R01HD135681] Funding Source: Medline
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Some individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome exhibit strengths in solving Jigsaw puzzles. We compared visuospatial ability and Jigsaw puzzle performance and strategies of 26 persons with Prader-Willi syndrome and 26 MA-matched typically developing controls. Individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome relied on piece shape. Those in the control group used a different, picture-focused strategy. Individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome performed better than did the control group on an achromatic interlocking puzzle, whereas scores on puzzles with pictures (interlocking or noninterlocking) did not differ. Visuospatial scores related to performance on all puzzles in the control group and on the noninterlocking puzzle in the Prader-Willi syndrome group. The most proficient Jigsaw puzzlers with Prader-Willi syndrome tended to be older and have shape-based strategies.
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