title: Tactile-perceptual functioning in relation to intellectual, cognitive and reading skills in younger and older normal children.
abstract: Forty-eight 12- to 14-years-olds and 40 six- to eight-year-old normal boys and girls were distributed into two groups on the basis of the number of errors they made on several tests of tactile-perceptual ability. The groups were then compared on measures of intellectual, cognitive and reading ability. In the older group, children with poor tactile-perceptual skills performed significantly less well on the other measures than children with few tactile-perceptual errors. This relationship was not so clearly demonstrated in the younger groups. The results are discussed in terms of individual differences in brain function.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D011932:Reading; D014110:Touch / Q000502:physiology*