Intelligence test performance of brain damaged subjects with lateralized motor deficits.

Abstract

The Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Test was administered to groups of brain damaged Ss having lateralized motor deficits, brain damaged Ss with no lateralized motor deficits, and control Ss having no brain damage. The results indicated that brain damaged Ss with right-sided motor deficits demonstrate different kinds of intellectual impairment than brain damaged Ss with left motor deficits and, additionally, that the intellectual impairment is a function of the lateralization of cerebral dysfunction rather than reflecting the motor handicap per se. The significance of the findings was briefly discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)