A meta-analysis of the line bisection task in children

Kaul, Danishta; Παπαδάτου-Παστού, Μαριέττα; Learmonth, Gemma

doi:10.1080/1357650x.2022.2147941

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“…The first limitation is that the majority of our participants were females. Although we did not find significant a gender difference with a further repeated measures ANOVA, F (1,114) = 1.46, p = 0.229, η 2 = 0.013, nor a significant condition by gender interaction, F (1,114) = 0.194, p = 0.660, η 2 = 0.002, there might be gender difference that deserves further study, as males outperformed females in spatial ability ( Yuan et al, 2019 ) but bisections were more leftward in studies with a higher percentage of boys relative to girls ( Roig and Cicero, 1994 ; Kaul et al, 2023 ), despite no gender difference were reported in some other studies ( Jewell and McCourt, 2000 ).…”

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“…One more consideration regarding the bisection task is that performance can be influenced by various confounding factors, such as inter-individual variability and language ( Jewell and McCourt, 2000 ; Learmonth and Papadatou-Pastou, 2022 ; Kaul et al, 2023 ). For instance, researchers have noted significant inter-individual variability in the direction and extent of bisection errors, with approximately half of the subjects deviating to the right and the other half to the left of the true midpoint ( Halligan et al, 1990 ; Manning et al, 1990 ).…”

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Effects of musical expertise on line section and line extension

Pei,

Xu,

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundThis study investigated whether music training led to better length estimation and/or rightward bias by comparing the performance of musicians (pianists) and non-musicians on performance of line sections and line extensions.MethodsOne hundred and sixteen participants, among them 62 musicians and 54 non-musicians, participated in the present study, completed line section and line extension task under three conditions: 1/2, 1/3 and 2/3.ResultsThe mixed repeated measures ANOVA analysis revealed a significant group × condition interaction, that the musicians were more accurate than non-musicians in all the line section tasks and showed no obvious pseudoneglect, while their overall performance on the line extension tasks was comparable to the non-musicians, and only performed more accurately in the 1/2 line extension condition.ConclusionThese findings indicated that there was a dissociation between the effects of music training on line section and line extension. This dissociation does not support the view that music training has a general beneficial effect on line estimation, and provides insight into a potentially important limit on the effects of music training on spatial cognition.

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Effects of musical expertise on line section and line extension

Pei,

Xu,

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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“…When used as a diagnostic tool to assess abnormal spatial attention, the line bisection task has predominantly been used in clinical settings. However, a large body of research exists examining line bisection performance in neurotypical populations, including, among others, elderly populations (Learmonth and Papadatou-Pastou 2022 ), children (Kaul et al 2023 ), or even to study cultural differences in line bisection behaviour (Marinelli et al 2019 ). Consistent with the idea of pseudoneglect (Jewell and McCourt 2000 ), neurotypical participants in left-to-right reading cultures typically bisect a line in the very middle or slightly to the left.…”

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Reducing alertness does not affect line bisection bias in neurotypical participants

Smaczny,

Bauder,

Sperber

et al. 2023

Exp Brain Res

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Alertness, or one’s general readiness to respond to stimulation, has previously been shown to affect spatial attention. However, most of this previous research focused on speeded, laboratory-based reaction tasks, as opposed to the classical line bisection task typically used to diagnose deficits of spatial attention in clinical settings. McIntosh et al. (Cogn Brain Res 25:833–850, 2005) provide a form of line bisection task which they argue can more sensitively assess spatial attention. Ninety-eight participants were presented with this line bisection task, once with and once without spatial cues, and both before and after a 50-min vigilance task that aimed to decrease alertness. A single participant was excluded due to potentially inconsistent behaviour in the task, leaving 97 participants for the full analyses. While participants were, on a group level, less alert after the 50-min vigilance task, they showed none of the hypothesised effects of reduced alertness on spatial attention in the line bisection task, regardless of with or without spatial cues. Yet, they did show the proposed effect of decreased alertness leading to a lower level of general attention. This suggests that alertness has no effect on spatial attention, as measured by a line bisection task, in neurotypical participants. We thus conclude that, in neurotypical participants, the effect of alertness on spatial attention can be examined more sensitively with tasks requiring a speeded response compared to unspeeded tasks.

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Hemispheric asymmetries over the lifespan: development and aging

Ocklenburg,

Güntürkün

2024

The Lateralized Brain

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A meta-analysis of the line bisection task in children

Cited by 3 publications

References 56 publications

Effects of musical expertise on line section and line extension

Effects of musical expertise on line section and line extension

Reducing alertness does not affect line bisection bias in neurotypical participants

Hemispheric asymmetries over the lifespan: development and aging

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