Papers on Williams Syndrome
Language and Cognition Lab
Barbara Landau

Publications, in press, and submitted

Dilks, D., Hoffman, J.E., & Landau (in press) Vision for perception and vision for action: Normal and unusual development. Developmental Science.

Landau, B. (in press) The organization and development of spatial cognition: Insights from Williams syndrome. In J. Burack (Ed.), Handbook of Mental Retardation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

O'Hearn, K., Courtney, S., Street, W., & Landau, B. (2008) Working memory impairment in people with Williams syndrome: Effects of delay, task and stimuli. Brain and Cognition.

Landau, B., & Hoffman, J.E. (2007) Explaining selective spatial breakdown in Williams syndrome: Four principles of normal development and why they matter. In J. Plumert and J. Spencer (Eds.), The emerging spatial mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

O'Hearn, K. & Landau, B. (2007) Mathematical skill in individuals with Williams syndrome: Evidence from a standardized mathematics battery. Brain and Cognition, 64, 238-246.

Landau, B., Hoffman, J.E., & Kurz, N. (2006) Object recognition with severe spatial deficits in Williams syndrome: Sparing and breakdown. Cognition., 1-28.

Reiss, J., Hoffman, J.E., & Landau, B. (2005) Motion processing specialization in Williams sundrome. Vision Research, 45, 3379-3390.

O'Hearn, K., Landau, B., & Hoffman, J.E. (2005) Multiple object tracking in people with Williams syndrome and in normally developing children. Psychological Science. 16 (11), 905-912.

Landau, B. and Hoffman, J.E. (2005) Parallels between spatial cognition and spatial language: Evidence from Williams syndrome. Journal of Memory and Language. 53 (2) 163-185.

Georgopoulos, M-A., Georgopoulos, A. P., Kurz, N. & Landau, B. (2004). Figure copying in Williams syndrome and normal subjects. Experimental Brain Research, 157(2), 137-146.

Hoffman, J. E., Landau, B., & Pagani, B. (2003). Spatial breakdown in spatial construction: Evidence from eye fixations in children with Williams syndrome. Cognitive Psychology, 46(3), 260-301.

Jordan, H., Reiss, J. E., Hoffman, J. E., & Landau, B. (2002). Intact perception of biological motion in the face of profound spatial deficits: Williams syndrome. Psychological Science, 13(2), 162-167.

Lakusta, L. & Landau, B. (2005). Starting at the end: The importance of goals in spatial language. Cognition, 96(1), 1-33.

Landau, B. (2002). Spatial cognition. In V. Ramachandran(Ed.), Encyclopedia of the human brain. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Landau, B., & Hoffman, J. (2003). Parallels between spatial cognition and spatial language: Evidence from Williams syndrome. Manuscript submitted.

Landau, B., Hoffman, J., Kurz, N. (2003). Spared object recognition with profound spatial deficits in a genetic disorder. Cognition. Manuscript under revision.

Landau, B., Hoffman, J. E., Reiss, J. E., Dilks, D., Lakusta, L., & Chunyo, G. (2004). Specialization, breakdown, and sparing in spatial cognition: Lessons from Williams syndrome. To appear in C. Morris, H. Lenhoff, & P. Wang, Eds., Williams-Beuren syndrome: Research and clinical perspectives. Baltimore, MD: JHU Press.

Landau, B., & Zukowski, A. (2003). Objects, motions, and paths: Spatial language in children with Williams syndrome. Developmental Neuropsychology, 23(1-2), Special Issue: Williams syndrome, 105-137.

Posters and presentations

Dilks, D., Landau, B., Hoffman, J., & Sigfried, J. (2001). Selective impairment of dorsal stream function in children with Williams syndrome. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience, New York, NY.

Dilks, D., Landau, B., Hoffman, J., & Oberg, P. (2003). Vision for action vs. perception in Williams syndrome: Evidence for developmental delay in the dorsal stream. Poster presented at Cognitive Neuroscience, New York, NY.

Hoffman, J. E., & Landau, B. (2000). Spared object recognition with profound spatial deficits: Evidence from children with Williams Syndrome. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco. (Page 1, Page 2)

O'Hearn Donny, K., Landau, B., & Hoffman, J. (2003). Development and breakdown in a multiple object tracking task. Poster presented at the 44th annual meeting of the Psychonomic society, Vancouver, BC.

Palomares, M., Landau, B., Hoffman, J.E. & Egeth, H. (2003) Collinear inhibition in Williams syndrome? Journal of Vision, 3(9), 667a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/667/, doi:10.1167/3.9.667.

Reiss, J. E., Hoffman, J. E., & Landau, B. (2003). Motion processing in Williams syndrome: Evidence against a general dorsal stream deficit. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Manuscripts in preparation

Dilks, D., Landau, B., & Hoffman, J. (2004). Vision for perception and vision for action: Normal and unusual development. Manuscript in preparation.

Hoffman, J. & Landau, B. (2004a). Specific spatial deficits in coding direction among Williams syndrome children. Manuscript in preparation.

Hoffman, J. & Landau, B. (2004b). Short-term visual memory for color and orientation in people with Williams syndrome. Manuscript in preparation.

Landau, B., & Kurz, N. (2004). Spatial patterns and their transformations. Manuscript in preparation.