The effects of precocious adrenarche on cognition and hemispheric specialization
| Autor: | John J. Sidtis, Abigail E. Sadler, Susan W. Baker, Ruth Nass |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System
Adolescent Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Spatial ability Population Pituitary-Adrenal System Puberty Precocious Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychological Tests Developmental psychology Dichotic Listening Tests Pitch Discrimination Cognition Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Verbal fluency test Humans Cognitive skill education Child Dominance Cerebral media_common Cerebral Cortex education.field_of_study Adrenarche Wechsler Scales Verbal Learning Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology El Niño Child Preschool Space Perception Androgens Speech Perception Aptitude Female Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Brain and cognition. 14(1) |
| ISSN: | 0278-2626 |
| Popis: | Cognitive skills were assessed in 13 females with a history of precocious adrenarche (PA). They were of average intelligence. In terms of lateralized cognitive skills, PA had no effect on verbal fluency. The spatial abilities of females with a history of PA, who had reached gonarche (were fully pubertal), were inferior to those of females tested in the midst of PA and to population controls. The physiologic/hormonal changes associated with normal adrenarche may curtail further specialization of the right hemisphere, resulting in a relative spatial deficit among females in general, who as a group reach adrenarche earlier than males. This spatial performance deficit is exaggerated in females with PA. |
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