Developmental changes in neural lateralization for visual-spatial function: Evidence from a line-bisection task.

ABSTRACT: Studies of hemispheric specialization have traditionally cast the left hemisphere as specialized for language and the right hemisphere for spatial function. Much of the supporting evidence for this separation of function comes from studies of healthy adults and those who have sustained lesions to the right or left hemisphere. However, we know little about the developmental origins of lateralization. Recent evidence suggests that the young brain represents language bilaterally, with 4-6-year-olds activating the left-hemisphere regions known to support language in adults as well as homotopic regions in the right hemisphere. This bilateral pattern changes over development, converging on left-hemispheric activation in late childhood. In the present study, we ask whether this same developmental

SUBMITTER: Ferrara K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9200908 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature