title: Asymmetries in visual-spatial processing following childhood stroke.
abstract: The authors compared hemisphere-based and cognitive-domain-based hypotheses for visual-spatial deficits in children with stroke (n = 33) and children without stroke (n = 43). Children with unilateral left (n = 14) or right (n = 7) injury showed less efficient search for the visual field contralateral to their injury. Right-hemisphere injury was associated with deficient global-level processing and coordinate spatial judgments. Left-hemisphere injury resulted in relatively intact local versus global processing and categorical versus coordinate judgments. Bilateral injury (n = 12) resulted in disruption of visual search across visual fields and relative deficits in global-level processing and coordinate spatial judgments. Recovery of visual-spatial processing in children following childhood stroke is task specific. Certain visual-spatial functions typically mediated by the left hemisphere appear less vulnerable to disruption.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. schatz@sc.edu
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schatz
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Craft
authors.forename: Myles
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koby
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: DeBaun
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012016:Reference Values