creators_name: Ratinckx, E.
creators_name: Brysbaert, M.
creators_name: d'Ydewalle, G.
creators_id: marc.brysbaert@ugent.be
type: journalp
datestamp: 2010-07-29 01:47:16
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title: Age and interhemispheric transfer time: A failure to replicate.
ispublished: pub
subjects: behav-neuro-sci
subjects: neuro-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: Poffenberger paradigm, interhemispheric transfer
abstract: In a recent study with the Poffenberger paradigm, Brizzolara et al. reported longer estimates of interhemispheric transfer time (IHTT) for children aged 7 years than for adults. They interpreted this finding as evidence for incomplete functional maturity of the corpus callosum in young children. The present study was we were unable to replicate the age effect reported by Brizzolara et al. A closer look at the original study revealed that only 80 observations per child had been collected, which makes it probable that the larger IHTTs in 7-year-olds were caused by stimulus-response compatibility rather than by the lower efficiency of the corpus callosum during childhood years. 
date: 1997
date_type: published
publication: Behavioural Brain Research
volume: 86
pagerange: 161-164
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Ratinckx, E. and Brysbaert, M. and d'Ydewalle, G.  (1997) Age and interhemispheric transfer time: A failure to replicate.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/6891/1/Ratinckx_et_al_Behav_Brain_Res_1997.pdf