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Spatial grouping activity in children with early cortical and subcortical lesions
Author(s) -
Vicari Stefano,
Stiles Joan,
Stern Catherine,
Resca Alessandra
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
developmental medicine and child neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.658
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1469-8749
pISSN - 0012-1622
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1998.tb15367.x
Subject(s) - right hemisphere , lateralization of brain function , psychology , cerebral hemisphere , poison control , medicine , neuroscience , audiology , medical emergency
Spatial construction skills were examined in 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children with prenatal or perinatal focal brain injury. In earlier work, a dissociation was reported between children with injury to the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere, right‐hemisphere injury resulting in significantly lower levels of performance. In the current paper, the effect of isolated unilateral subcortical injury was explored. Thirty‐four children with early focal brain injury were tested in a task which required them to copy a series of simple block constructions. There were approximately equal numbers of children with right‐hemisphere and left‐hemisphere injury; within each of these groups approximately half of the children had injury involving only subcortical regions. Consistent with the earlier work, children with right‐hemisphere injury performed significantly below children with left‐hemisphere injury and the normal controls. Importantly, no differences were observed between the children with isolated subcortical injury and children with injury involving both cortical and subcortical brain areas.