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READING RETARDATION AND CROSS‐LATERALITY IN RELATION TO SHORT‐TERM INFORMATION PROCESSING TASKS
Author(s) -
WHEELER T. J.,
WATKINS E. J.,
McLAUGHLIN S. P.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1977.tb02337.x
Subject(s) - laterality , psychology , reading (process) , information processing , dominance (genetics) , developmental psychology , audiology , cognitive psychology , linguistics , medicine , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
S ummary . The performance of 10 cross‐lateral children was compared with a control group of 10 uni‐lateral children on short‐term information processing tasks using three types of units—digits, letters and symbols. The tasks consisted of presenting different numbers of units of information simultaneously by tachistoscopic exposure. The cross‐lateral group took significantly longer to identify accurately the information presented: their performance significantly deteriorated as the information load was increased from three to five units. The cross‐lateral group was also significantly inferior to the matched control group on reading age. It is contended that the reading retardation associated with cross‐laterality (which is indicative of ill‐established cerebral dominance) is a specific manifestation of a general limitation in any kind of information processing.