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Facial affect recognition in children

A comparison of the performance of children with right and left hemisphere lesions

Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (Dr. Voeller), University of Florida School of Medicine, Gainesville, FL; Park Nicollet Medical Center (Dr. Hanson), Maplewood, MN; the Department of Counselor and Human Services Education (Dr. Wendt), University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.

This study tests the hypothesis that the right hemisphere is specialized for the processing of emotional information in children, as it is in adults. We compared the performance of eight children with right-hemisphere lesions and eight with left-hemisphere lesions on a test of facial affect recognition. The mean score of the right-hemisphere group fell significantly below that of the left-hemisphere group and normal controls, suggesting that the specialization of the right hemisphere occurs early in development. This finding is consistent with clinical observations that children with right-hemisphere dysfunction manifest a high incidence of difficulty in social interactions.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Voeller, Box J234 JHMHC, University of Florida School of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610.

Presented at the sixteenth annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, New Orleans, LA, January 1988.

Received March 16, 1988. Accepted for publication in final form May 4, 1988.

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