Evidence for an attraction account of closing-in behaviour

McIntosh, Robert D.; Ambron, Elisabetta; Sala, Sergio Della

doi:10.1080/02643290802028981

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“…1 for examples). The laterally extensive characteristic of Luria's picture allows the development of CIB during the copying time (McIntosh et al 2008) and has been shown to be effective in eliciting CIB in children (Ambron et al 2009c).…”

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“…The elicitation of CIB by this dual-task implies that, although this behaviour usually arises in copying tasks, it is not specifically related to the copying requirement, but rather to the more general requirement to act at a location removed from the focus of attention. Several authors have hypothesised that this default attraction to the focus of attention may be released in patients with focal brain damage or dementia due to reduced attentional resources (Ambron et al 2009b;Conson et al 2009;McIntosh et al 2008). If similar mechanisms underlie the developmental form of the phenomenon, then attentional insufficiencies should predict CIB in pre-school children.…”

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Closing-in behaviour in preschool children

2009

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Many pre-school children show closing-in behaviour (CIB) in graphic copying tasks: a tendency to place their copy abnormally close to or even on top of the model. Similar phenomena have been studied in patients with dementia, though it is unclear whether the superficial similarities between CIB in development and dementia reflect common underlying cognitive mechanisms. The aim of the present study was to investigate the cognitive functions involved in CIB in pre-school children. Forty-one children (3-5 years) were assessed for CIB, and completed a neuropsychological battery targeting visuospatial abilities, short term memory (verbal and spatial) and attention (sustained attention, selective attention and attention switching). Binary logistic regression found that performance on the attention subtests was the best unique predictor of CIB. A second analysis, in which the three attention subtests were entered as separate predictors, suggested that attention switching ability was most strongly related to CIB. These results support the view that CIB in children reflects inadequate attentional control. The convergence of these results with similar observations in patients with dementia further suggests that similar cognitive factors underlie CIB in these two populations.

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Closing-in behaviour in preschool children

2009

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“…In this 'attraction' framework, CI would represent a 'default' behavior released by defects of attentional-executive abilities [194,195]. In analogy with the 'compensation' hypothesis, the 'attraction' hypothesis predicts that CI would be enhanced in dealing with complex models because they likely imply high attentional load, and reduce available resources for monitoring graphic productions.…”

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Drawing Disorders in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Forms of Dementia

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2016

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Abstract. Drawing is a multicomponential process that can be impaired by many kinds of brain lesions. Drawing disorders are very common in Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, and can provide clinical information for the distinction of the different dementing diseases. In our review we started from an overview of the neural and cognitive bases of drawing, and from a recollection of the drawing tasks more frequently used for assessing individuals with dementia. Then, we analyzed drawing disorders in dementia, paying special attention to those observed in Alzheimer's disease, from the prodromal stages of the amnesic mild cognitive impairment to the stages of full-blown dementia, both in the sporadic forms with late onset in the entorhino-hippocampal structures and in those with early onset in the posterior neocortical structures. We reviewed the drawing features that could differentiate Alzheimer's disease from vascular dementia and from the most frequent forms of degenerative dementia, namely frontotemporal dementia and Lewy body disease. Finally, we examined some peculiar aspects of drawing disorders in dementia, such as perseverations, rotations, and closing-in. We argue that a careful analysis of drawing errors helps to differentiate the different forms of dementia more than overall accuracy in drawing.

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“…This phenomenon, which has been reported in focal brain diseases (cerebral stroke, encephalitis, epilepsy) [1][2][3] and various forms of dementia [4][5][6], has been noted most commonly in Alzheimer's disease (AD) [6]. In AD, the frequency of this behaviour increases with dementia severity [7] and with increasing complexity of the figures/gestures to copy [8,9]. CIB has also been observed in fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) and interpreted as a sign of constructional apraxia (CA) [10].…”

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