TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1998//
TI  - Right-left orientation and significance of systematic reversal in children
JO  - Cortex
A1  - Dellatolas, G.
A1  - Viguier, D.
A1  - Deloche, G.
A1  - de Agostini, M.
SP  - 659
EP  - 676
VL  - 34
IS  - 5
N2  - Shortly before the acquisition of right and left, which generally occurs around age 6-7 years, a very simple right/left discrimination task makes it possible to distinguish groups of children with strikingly different cognitive abilities. Preschool children aged from 5 to 6.4 years were asked to show their left hand, right eye, left ear and right hand. On a variety of simple cognitive tasks exploring verbal fluency, syntactic comprehension, working memory, visuo-spatial ability and number processing, children who made from 1 to 3 errors (14% of the sample) performed significantly worse than those who showed systematic reversal (30%) and those who made no error. Differential use of logical thinking can partially explain these differences. Neuropsychological implications of these developmental findings are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0010-9452
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -