title: Further studies of tactile perception and motor coordination in agenesis of the corpus callosum.
abstract: A 12-year-old female with total agenesis of the corpus callosum has been tested on several tasks involving tactile perception and motor coordination. Her performance has been compared with a group of normals of the same age and sex and a group of subjects matched for age, sex and I.Q. On 3 of the bimanual motor coordination tasks the acallosal's performance was not clearly distinguishable from the control's. She was, however, slower than the controls on the pegboard task. On a transfer of training task (formboard) the acallosal was slower than normals and did not manifest transfer. However, transfer of training was shown on a maze-learning task. No deficit was found in the ability to tactually cross-identify objects, but a deficit in tactile cross-localization was evidenced.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D061085:Agenesis of Corpus Callosum; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D009048:Motor Skills; D014110:Touch