Children's Search for Targets Located within and beyond the Field of View: Effects of Deafness and Age

Netelenbos, J. B.; Savelsbergh, Geert J.P.

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“…Control children were matched for age and sex. In particular, the age factor is of relevance here because in the aforementioned study (Netelenbos and Savelsbergh 2003) of children from 5 to 12 years old, we found a clear significant effect for age on localization time.…”

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Visual search in school-aged children with unilateral brain lesions

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Rooij

2004

Dev Med Child Neurol

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“…We examined visual search behaviour by means of apparatus used in previous research (Netelenbos and Savelsbergh 2003). This ring-shaped apparatus, which surrounds the child, made it possible to present visual targets within and beyond the initial field of view.…”

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Visual search in school-aged children with unilateral brain lesions

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2004

Dev Med Child Neurol

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“…No differences were observed in visual sustained attention [102]. However, young deaf children were more likely to be distracted by peripheral information than hearing children (before the age of 9) [102], and at ages of 5-12 years, deaf children used slower visual search strategies [103]. Notably, the selection criteria for participants in the deaf population play a major role in determining the effects, particularly regarding the degree of hearing loss/auditory simulation.…”

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The Cross-Modal Effects of Sensory Deprivation on Spatial and Temporal Processes in Vision and Audition: A Systematic Review on Behavioral and Neuroimaging Research since 2000

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One of the most significant effects of neural plasticity manifests in the case of sensory deprivation when cortical areas that were originally specialized for the functions of the deprived sense take over the processing of another modality. Vision and audition represent two important senses needed to navigate through space and time. Therefore, the current systematic review discusses the cross-modal behavioral and neural consequences of deafness and blindness by focusing on spatial and temporal processing abilities, respectively. In addition, movement processing is evaluated as compiling both spatial and temporal information. We examine whether the sense that is not primarily affected changes in its own properties or in the properties of the deprived modality (i.e., temporal processing as the main specialization of audition and spatial processing as the main specialization of vision). References to the metamodal organization, supramodal functioning, and the revised neural recycling theory are made to address global brain organization and plasticity principles. Generally, according to the reviewed studies, behavioral performance is enhanced in those aspects for which both the deprived and the overtaking senses provide adequate processing resources. Furthermore, the behavioral enhancements observed in the overtaking sense (i.e., vision in the case of deafness and audition in the case of blindness) are clearly limited by the processing resources of the overtaking modality. Thus, the brain regions that were previously recruited during the behavioral performance of the deprived sense now support a similar behavioral performance for the overtaking sense. This finding suggests a more input-unspecific and processing principle-based organization of the brain. Finally, we highlight the importance of controlling for and stating factors that might impact neural plasticity and the need for further research into visual temporal processing in deaf subjects.

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“…Seven non-injured children, matched for age and sex, participated in the study: four right-hemisphere lesion control children (mean age 8 years 8 months, SD 1 year 9 months), three left-hemisphere lesion control children (mean age 9 years 1 month, SD 3 months). The control children were chosen from 50 primary school children who had participated in a previous study (Netelenbos and Savelsbergh 2003). The localization study and standard psychometric tests were performed by the second author.…”

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Visual search in school‐aged children with unilateral brain lesions

Netelenbos

Rooij

2004

Develop Med Child Neuro

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In this preliminary study, visual search for targets within and beyond the initial field of view was investigated in seven school‐aged children (five females, two males; mean age at testing 8 years 10 months, SD1 year 3 months; range 6 to 10 years) with various acquired, postnatal, focal brain injuries (haematoma, haemorrhage, meningioma, neuroblastoma, and cerebral abscess) in anterior or posterior sites of the left or right hemisphere, and seven control children (matched for age and sex) were also studied. All participants attended mainstream primary schools. The children with lesions underwent surgery after diagnosis (mean age at diagnosis 5 years 4 months, SD 2 years 7 months). Group results indicated that for the overall scores on three psychometric tests of visuospatial and fine motor abilities (Southern California Figure Ground Perception Test, Visual Organization Test, and Visual‐Motor Integration Test), no difference between the children with left and right lesions was present. However, children with lesions in the right hemisphere, and not in the left hemisphere, took significantly more time than the controls to locate visual targets presented within and beyond the field of view. Examination of individual data suggested that, in accordance with brain imaging research, right‐sided anterior cerebral lesions sustained in early childhood might have an enduring detrimental effect on voluntary visual search performance during development. This persistent effect of early brain injury might imply that developmental plasticity of the brain does not apply to certain specific functions of particular areas of the right hemisphere.

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Children's Search for Targets Located within and beyond the Field of View: Effects of Deafness and Age

Cited by 9 publications

References 42 publications

Visual search in school-aged children with unilateral brain lesions

Visual search in school-aged children with unilateral brain lesions

The Cross-Modal Effects of Sensory Deprivation on Spatial and Temporal Processes in Vision and Audition: A Systematic Review on Behavioral and Neuroimaging Research since 2000

Visual search in school‐aged children with unilateral brain lesions

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