title: Apparently enhanced visual information processing in female fragile X carriers: preliminary findings.
abstract: Eighteen normally intelligent adult female fragile X carriers were tested with the "de Sonneville Visual Attention Tasks," a computer-based set of reaction-time experiments, in order to assess different aspects of their attention capacity. The subject group was compared with a group of 48 adults, who were not known to be fragile X carriers. We publish preliminary results of this study. These show that the fragile X carriers have significantly faster reaction times at a substantial number of the tests. This suggests that normally intelligent female fragile X carriers might process simple visual information, such as the targets offered in these reaction time experiments, at a faster rate than control women.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Clinical Genetics, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Steyaert
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borghgraef
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Fryns
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000209:etiology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D005600:Fragile X Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011594:Psychometrics; D011930:Reaction Time; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*