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Bergen, Anne-Marie E.; Mosley, James L. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1994
This study, involving adults with and without mental retardation and mental age-matched children, employed a lateralized presentation of Stroop color words, neutral words, and the subject's first name. Individuals with mental retardation experienced difficulty in effortful processing (inhibiting the reading response on the Stroop trials) and in…
Descriptors: Adults, Attention, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedBranch, Walter B.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1995
Twenty children with left or right hemisphere dysfunction and 10 controls were administered a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation. Results provide limited support for the hypothesis that the right hemisphere subserves attention and concentration but not for the hypothesis that right-hemisphere deficits are more frequently associated with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Attention, Attention Deficit Disorders
