Delis DC, Robertson LC, Efron R. Hemispheric specialization of memory for visual hierarchical stimuli.
Neuropsychologia 1986;
24:205-14. [PMID:
3714025 DOI:
10.1016/0028-3932(86)90053-9]
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Abstract
Unilateral brain-damaged patients and normal control subjects were asked to remember visual hierarchical stimuli consisting of larger forms constructed from smaller forms. The right-hemisphere damaged patients made more errors in remembering the larger forms relative to the smaller forms, whereas the left-hemisphere damaged patients made more errors in remembering the smaller forms relative to the larger forms. These findings are discussed as they relate to hemispheric specialization for visuospatial processing.
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