Hemispheric asymmetries in children.
A sample of 48 boys was divided into four separate age groups and then presented with a variety of hemispheric specialization tasks. Asymmetries were demonstrated on manual, visual, and auditory tasks, however, the degree of these asymmetries did not change across age groups. The findings suggest that hemispheric specialization as measured by dichotic listening and visual half-field tasks is not likely to change significantly with increased age. In addition, there appears to be a dissociation between visual and auditory perceptual asymmetries.
D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013067:Speech Perception; D014794:Visual Fields; D014796:Visual Perception