{"pk":27456,"title":"Pseudoneglect and development: Age-related spatial bias in bisection and drawing","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The numerous studies on pseudoneglect have generated\ninconsistent results and disagreement concerning the\nunderlying mechanisms. Most research supports the\nhypothesis that hemispheric lateralization is the main reason\nfor the persistent leftward bias in spatial tasks. Findings on\nthe influence of reading direction, handedness and participant\nage are largely contradictory. As a result of brain maturation\nadults usually perform with significant leftward bias.\nHowever, both hemispheric activation and scanning habits\nexert an influence on space representation, which varies\nacross age groups. Preschoolers, middle school children and\nadults were tested on the line and word bisection tasks and on\nhouse-person-tree drawing tasks. The analysis of their\nperformance produced results consistent with an explanatory\naccount that the direction of the spatial bias shifts leftwards in\nthe course of development.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"pseudoneglect"},{"word":"line bisection"},{"word":"age differences"},{"word":"house-person-tree drawing task"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w23c2j6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yordanka","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zafirova","name_suffix":"","institution":"New Bulgarian University","department":""},{"first_name":"Asenia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Giagtzidou","name_suffix":"","institution":"New Bulgarian University","department":""},{"first_name":"Dara","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vassileva","name_suffix":"","institution":"New Bulgarian University","department":""},{"first_name":"Elena","middle_name":"","last_name":"Andonova","name_suffix":"","institution":"New Bulgarian University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27456/galley/17092/download/"}]}