Visual-Constructive Disabilities Associated With Lesions of the Left Cerebral Hemisphere

McFie, John; Zangwill, O. L.

doi:10.1093/brain/83.2.243

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“…However, the results of studies involving constructions and drawings are usually controversial, since constructional tasks also tax praxic functions. Of many studies (McFie & Zangwill, 1960;Arrigoni & De Renzi, 1964;Warrington, James, & Kinsbourne, 1966;MCGIOIW & Kertesz, 1973;Arena & Gainotti, 1978), none was conducted in the light of a specific theory of lateralization of separate spatial subsystems and they may have therefore overlooked important qualitative differences in the performance of patients.…”

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“…Many authors agree that left/right confusion stands o u t in left hemisphere pathology 'as a peculiar spatial disorder (e.g., Gerstmann, 1924, cited in Benton, 1966McFie & Zangwill, 1960;Semmes, Weinstein, Ghent, & Teuber, 1963;Luria, 1966;Poeck & Orgass, 1967;Saguet, Henton, & HCcaen, 1971;Benton, 1985). Luria (1966) observed that verbal structures expressing spatial relationships (like the adverbial clauses "to the right of ") were particularly difficult to understand for patients with left parietotemporal-occipital lesions.…”

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Lateralization of Categorical and Coordinate Spatial Functions: A Study of Unilateral Stroke Patients

Laeng

1994

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Sixty patients with unilateral stroke (half with left hemisphere damage and half with right hemisphere damage) and a control group (N = 15) matched for age and educational level were tested in two experiments. In one experiment they were first shown, on each trial, a sample drawing depicting one or more objects. Following a short delay, they were asked to identify the drawing when it was paired with a drawing in which the same object(s) was transformed in categorical or coordinate spatial relations. In the other experiment, the same subjects first were shown, on each trial, a sample drawing. They then judged which of two variants (each in one type of spatial relation) looked more similar to the sample drawing. Typically, patients with left-sided stroke mistakenly identified the categorical transformation for the sample drawing in the first task; in the second task, they judged the categorical transformation as more similar to the sample drawing. Patients with right-sided stroke mistakenly identified the coordinate transformations for the sample drawing in the first task, and, in the second task, typically judged the drawings transformed along coordinate spatial relations as more similar to the sample drawing. These findings provide evidence for complementary lateralization of the two types of spatial perception. It can therefore be inferred that separate functional subsystems process the two types of spatial relations.

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Lateralization of Categorical and Coordinate Spatial Functions: A Study of Unilateral Stroke Patients

Laeng

1994

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Head and Holmes (191 1) reported a patient who suffered brief attacks of "electric shock"-like pain that radiated from his foot to the trunk; a glioma in the right parietal area subsequently was discovered. McFie and Zangwill (1960) reported on an individual who began to experience intense, extreme pain in a phantom arm after a right posterior stroke. In another instance reported by York et al, (1979), a 9-year-old boy experienced spontaneous attacks of intense scrotal and testicular pain and was found to have seizure activity in the right parietal area.…”

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The right cerebral hemisphere: Emotion, music, visual-spatial skills, body-image, dreams, and awareness

Joseph¹

1988

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Based on a review of numerous studies conducted on normal, neurosurgical and brain‐injured individuals, the right cerebral hemisphere appears to be dominant in the perception and identification of environmental and nonverbal sounds; the analysis of geometric and visual space (e. g., depth perception, visual closure); somesthesis, stereognosis, the maintenance of the body image; the production of dreams during REM sleep; the perception of most aspects of musical stimuli; and the comprehension and expression of prosodic, melodic, visual, facial, and verbal emotion. When the right hemisphere is damaged a variety of cognitive abnormalities may result, including hemiinattention and neglect, prosopagnosia, constructional apraxia, visualperceptual disturbances, and agnosia for environmental, musical, and emotional sounds. Similarly, a myriad of affective abnormalities may occur, including indifference, depression, hysteria, gross social‐emotional disinhibition, florid manic excitement, childishness, euphoria, impulsivity, and abnormal sexual behavior. Patients may become delusional, engage in the production of bizzare confabulations and experience a host of somatic disturbances such as pain and body‐perceptual distortions. Based on studies of normal and “split‐brain” functioning, it also appears that the right hemisphere maintains a highly developed social‐emotional mental system and can independentyly perceive, recall and act on certain memories and experiences without the aid or active reflective participation of the left. This leads to situations in which the right and left halves of the brain sometime act in an uncoopertive fashion, which gives rise to inter‐manual and intrapsychic conflicts.

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“…These scoring systems have facilitated assessment of clock-drawing ability in the normal population as well as in cognitively impaired individuals [6-141. Clock-drawing is sensitive not only to visuospatial and praxis impairments but also to deficits in attention and executive functions [3-5, [15][16][17]. Clock-drawing can thus reflect a wide variety of deficits depending on the different brain systems involved.…”

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Clock Tests in Depression, Alzheimer's Disease, and Elderly Controls

Herrmann

Kidron

Shulman

et al. 1998

Int J Psychiatry Med

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Visual-Constructive Disabilities Associated With Lesions of the Left Cerebral Hemisphere

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Lateralization of Categorical and Coordinate Spatial Functions: A Study of Unilateral Stroke Patients

Lateralization of Categorical and Coordinate Spatial Functions: A Study of Unilateral Stroke Patients

The right cerebral hemisphere: Emotion, music, visual-spatial skills, body-image, dreams, and awareness

Clock Tests in Depression, Alzheimer's Disease, and Elderly Controls

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