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Spontaneous drawing tasks were administered to a large series of patients selected only for unilateral damage to the left or right cerebral hemisphere. Aphasic patients were not excluded. Overall, patients with left-hemisphere lesions performed more poorly than those with right-hemisphere lesions, whether one considered crude ratings of the pictures, or detailed scoring measures. Patients who were manually apraxic and/or aphasic were by far the most impaired. Only a small number of patients with right-hemisphere lesions made very poor drawings, and as a group they tended to show neglect by other criteria, and to have a significant hemiparesis. Restricted damage within the left hemisphere, particularly of the anterior region, still yielded a high incidence of poor drawings, but this was much less true in the right hemisphere. It appears that drawing/constructional ability is more diffusely organized in the right hemisphere than in the left.
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Kimura, D., Faust, R. (1987). Spontaneous Drawing in an Unselected Sample of Patients with Unilateral Cerebral Damage. In: Ottoson, D. (eds) Duality and Unity of the Brain. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series, vol 47. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1949-8_9
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