Mirror writing in pre-school children: a pilot study |
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Authors: | Roberto Cubelli Sergio Della Sala |
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Institution: | (1) Dipartimento di Scienze della Cognizione e della Formazione, Universita’ di Trento, Corso Bettini, 31, 38068 Rovereto, TN, Italy;(2) Human Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK |
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Abstract: | Mirror writing refers to the production of individual letters, whole words or sentences in reverse direction. Unintentional
mirror writing has been observed in young children learning to write and interpreted as the manifestation of different cognitive
impairments. We report on mirror writing instances in a sample of 108 pre-school children. Results showed MW to be age-related
but independent from handedness and left-right discrimination abilities. We propose an account of mirror writing as reflecting
dissociation between acquired motor programmes for letter shape composition and unspecified spatial direction of hand movements.
Before learning to write, the child’s directional cognitive system is assumed to be dichotomous, thus inducing the production
of randomly oriented asymmetrical letters. |
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Keywords: | Mirror writing Children learning to write |
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