Hemispheric specialization of memory for visual hierarchical stimuli.
Unilateral brain-damaged patients and normal control subjects were asked to remember visual hierarchical stimuli consisting of larger forms constructed from smaller forms. The right-hemisphere damaged patients made more errors in remembering the larger forms relative to the smaller forms, whereas the left-hemisphere damaged patients made more errors in remembering the smaller forms relative to the larger forms. These findings are discussed as they relate to hemispheric specialization for visuospatial processing.
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D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D011601:Psychophysics