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Autor/inn/en | Heil, Martin; Jansen-Osmann, Petra |
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Titel | Children's Left Parietal Brain Activation during Mental Rotation Is Reliable as Well as Specific |
Quelle | In: Cognitive Development, 22 (2007) 2, S.280-288 (9 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0885-2014 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.cogdev.2006.10.004 |
Schlagwörter | Grade 2; Stimuli; Memory; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Spatial Ability; Children; Visual Stimuli; Cognitive Processes |
Abstract | Some recent evidence suggests that mental rotation of characters in children aged 7 or 8 years might be lateralized to the left parietal hemisphere. An alternative statement exists, however, the finding might be completely unspecific for mental rotation but either be simply a function of task difficulty or a consequence of the use of characters as stimuli. To test these alternatives, ERPs of 24 second graders were measured twice: (a) during mental rotation with characters as stimuli and orientations of 30 degrees, 90 degrees, or 150 degrees and (b) during memory scanning with characters as stimuli and set sizes of 1, 2, or 3 letters. In both cases, an amplitude modulation was found. The effect of mental rotation as a function of character orientation turned out to be lateralized to the left parietal hemisphere. The effect of memory scanning as a function of set size, however, turned out to be completely non-lateralized. Thus, children's left hemisphere activation during mental rotation is reliable as well as specific. (Author). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |