Egocentric mental rotation in Hungarian dyslexic children.

Dyslexia

Neuropsychology Laboratory, University Medical School Pécs, Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Szigeti u. 12, H-7623, Pécs, Hungary.

Published: June 2001

A mental rotation task was given to 27 dyslexic children (mean age 9 years, 2 months) and to 28 non-dyslexic children (mean age 8 years, 8 months). Pictures of right and left hands were shown at angles of 0, 50, 90 and 180 degrees, and the subjects were required to indicate whether what was shown was a right hand or a left hand. It was found that, in this task, the dyslexics did not show the normal pattern of response times at different angles, and also, that they made more errors than the controls. It is argued that this result is compatible with hypothesis that, in typical cases of dyslexia, there is a malfunctioning in the posterior parietal area.

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