Speed of color naming and intelligence: association in girls, dissociation in boys.
We administered a rapid naming test to a sample of prereaders. Slow performance on this task among older children is known to be associated with reading disability. Results showed a sex difference in the degree of correlation between naming performance and a test of general intelligence. The finding was replicated on an independent sample. This finding bears theoretically on the degree to which a learning disability can appear as an isolated deficit in the two sexes.
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003118:Color Perception; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011930:Reaction Time; D012737:Sex Factors; D014705:Verbal Behavior