Study of a case of two-handed synchronous writing / by George M. Gould.

  • Gould, George Milbrey, 1848-1922.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Study of a case of two-handed synchronous writing / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The effect of the deprivation of visual attention upon mirror writing shown in 3b series further illustrates the foregoing suggestions. Each is written separately, and by the aid of central attention only. “The right reverses just as badly” as in the case immediately preceding. The sin- istral hand does its work far better than the dextral under the disadvantage, and the comparative loss of the sense of direction and space-relation is strikingly manifest. For the first time is shown the tendency, slight in the sinistral hand, marked in the dextral, towards a declina- tion, and a double one, of the two words, from the right to the left, i. e. in the direction in which the mirror writing proceeds. The sinistral writing is again the more con- densed.
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