Jordan left-right reversal test: A study of visual reversals in children

Jordan, Brian T.; Jordan, Susan G.

doi:10.1007/bf01436026

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“…It is well-known that young children under 8 -9 years of age experience difficulty when discriminating left-right mirror images (e.g., Bryant, 1973;Cohn & Stricker, 1979;Cronin, 1967;Davidson, 1935;Jordan & Jordan, 1974;Thompson, 1975). A number of previous studies have used letters, such as "b" versus "d" and "p" versus "q", to investigate reversal discrimination and, as a result, it is thought that there may be a correlation between the reading and writing skills of children and their performance on left-right reversal discrimination tasks (Cohn & Stricker, 1979;Cubelli & Della Sala, 2009;Davidson, 1935;Fisher, Bornstein, & Gross, 1985;Jordan & Jordan, 1974, 1990Terepocki, Kruk, & Willows, 2002). McMonnies (1992a;1992b) found that mirror image confusion in children is correlated with factors other than linguistic skills and suggested that left/right body awareness may be a latent factor.…”

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Left-Right and Up-Down Mirror Image Confusion in 4-, 5- and 6-Year-Olds

Uehara

2013

PSYCH

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Young children under the age of 8-9 years tend to confuse left-right mirror images, and it is thought that their linguistic skills play a crucial role in this phenomenon. However, other aspects of this confusion, such as whether children confuse up-down mirror images or whether the meaningfulness of the stimulus influences matching performance, remain unclear. The present study examined the confusion of left-right and up-down reversed images by 4-, 5-and 6-year-olds using meaningful and meaningless figures in a task in which sample and comparison stimuli were presented simultaneously. Children performed more accurately when presented with meaningful figures and confused both up-down and left-right reversed figures, although they did so less frequently in response to up-down than to left-right reversed figures. Reversal confusion was greatest in 4-year-olds and no significant differences were observed between 5and 6-year-olds. These findings suggest that the ability to discriminate reversed images may be associated with the development of a wide range of cognitive abilities including theory of mind, executive function, and suggestibility.

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Left-Right and Up-Down Mirror Image Confusion in 4-, 5- and 6-Year-Olds

Uehara

2013

PSYCH

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“…Further evidence that reversal phenomena is a common developmental pattern is evident in the standardization data of the Jordan Left-Right Reversal Test (Jordan and Jordan 1974). This test requires the child to cross out printed letters and numbers containing mirror images and reversals.…”

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Tendency to Mirror-Image on a Visual Memory Test

Aliotti

1980

Academic Therapy

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“…Many children in the first through third grades show confusion in response to such forms (Gibson, Gibson, Pick, and Osser, 1962;Rudel and Teuber, 1963;Sekuler and Rosenblith, 1964;Huttenlocher, 1967;Enterline, 1970). The problem tends to disappear with increasing age and is usually not found in normal children beyond the third grade (Rosenblith, 1965;Jordan and Jordan, 1974). It may, however, persist into adulthood in cases of severe reading disorders.…”

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