Atypical Hemispheric Specialization in Intellectual Deficiency  

Oleh:

Paquette, Claude ; Tosoni, Caroline ; Lassonde, Maryse ; Peretz, Isabelle

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 52 no. 3 (1996), page 474-483.
Fulltext: 52_03_Paquette.pdf (118.32KB)

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In order to determine the relation between hemispheric specialization for language and intellectual deficiency, two groups of lower-IQ subjects were compared to normal- IQ controls on word-dichotic listening tasks. Two conditions in which stimuli differed by their level of phonological complexity were used. Normal controls showed the expected right-ear advantage in both conditions. Moreover, they showed a greater magnitude of ear difference on the condition requiring higher-order phonological processing. In the mentally deficient group, almost half the subjects exhibited a left-ear advantage and they showed no difference between the two conditions in terms of the magnitude of ear difference. These results point to the presence of atypical hemispheric specialization in mentally deficient subjects.

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