Confusion of laterally inverted mirror-images: a relationship to brain anatomy?
Whereas in the monkey brain the representation of spatial direction (left/ right) is the same for visual and for tactual inflow, in the human brain visual and tactual lateral directions are not aligned with respect to one another. This anatomical feature of the human brain may account in part for the particular difficulty young sighted children have with laterally inverted forms. A small group of children who were totally blind since birth distinguished mirror pairs by touch significantly more easily than did sighted children of comparable age; and monkeys succeeded at cross-modal recognition of laterally inverted mirror pairs better (relative to control pairs) than did sighted children.
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001766:Blindness / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008297:Male; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014110:Touch / Q000502:physiology; D014794:Visual Fields