title: Visuospatial ability, accuracy of size estimation, and bulimic disturbance in a noneating-disordered college sample: a neuropsychological analysis.
abstract: The relationship between visuospatial ability and size accuracy in perception was assessed in 69 normal college females. In general, correlations indicated small associations between visuospatial defects and size overestimation and little relationship between visuospatial ability and level of bulimic disturbance. Implications for research on the size overestimation of body image are addressed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620.
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Spana
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001076:Aptitude; D001828:Body Image; D002032:Bulimia / Q000523:psychology*; D003867:Depth Perception; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D012858:Size Perception