Lateral Preference and Ability to Conserve Multiple Spatial Relations by Mentally Retarded Children
- 1 August 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 35 (1) , 151-152
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1972.35.1.151
Abstract
31 trainable mentally retarded children were divided into lateralized and mixed-dominant groups and were then tested for their ability to perform a spatial task requiring short-term memory and reversible visual imagery. Retarded children with inconsistent and crossed laterality patterns were better in visual-spatial ability than retarded children whose sided preferences were unilateral in eye, hand, ear and foot modalities. The results support the developmental importance of bilateral sensory and motor functioning.Keywords
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Children's acquisition of visuo-spatial dimensionality: A conservation study.Developmental Psychology, 1971
- Children's Spatial Representation of Directional Movement and Figure Orientations along Horizontal and Vertical DimensionsPerceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
- A SCALE FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF LATERAL DOMINANCEJournal of Educational Measurement, 1969