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Neuropediatrics 1971; 3(2): 191-194
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1091811
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© 1971 by Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.

Tactile Matching in Children with Hydrocephalus1

Edgar Miller, Lovleen Sethi
  • Department of Psychology, University of Hull, and Combined Neurological Service, Hull Royal Infirmary
1The work was supported by a grant from the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases.
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1971

1971

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18 November 2008 (online)

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Abstract

16 hydrocephalic and 16 age matched normal children were required to match shapes felt by one hand with similar shapes presented to the same or the different hand. Overall ability on this task was much lower for the hydrocephalic subjects. This shows that the difficulty in processing spatial information which occurs in hydrocephalus in the visual modality is also present in the tactile modality. In addition, the hydrocephalic group had greater difficulty with “crossed” than “uncrossed” matches. This suggests a partial “split brain” effect in hydrocephalus as might be predicted from pathological reports of stretching of the corpus callosum in this condition.

Zusammenfassung

Sechzehn Kinder mit einem Hydrocephalus wurden mit 16 normalen Kindern verglichen hinsichtlich ihrer Fähigkeiten, mit den Händen Umrisse hölzerner Blocks zu identifizieren. Diese Fähigkeit war bei den Kindern mit Hydrocephalus gegenüber der Kontrollgruppe stark vermindert. Darüber hinaus hatten die Kinder mit Hydrocephalus größere Schwierigkeiten, mit der rechten Hand Umrisse zu identifizieren, die ihnen mit der linken bereits geläufig waren. Es wird hieraus auf einen “split brain” Effekt geschlossen.

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Hydrocephalus - tactile matching

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