Arthur L. Benton
University of Iowa
182 Papers
2.9K Citations
Arthur L. Benton is an academic researcher from University of Iowa. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aphasia & Neuropsychology. The author has an hindex of 60, co-authored 182 publications.
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Multilingual aphasia examination: Norms for children
TL;DR: This paper found that children within the roughly average range of verbal intelligence showed a progressive increase in performance level from kindergarten (6 years) to the sixth grade (12 years) and the average performances of the 12-year-old children were generally at the borderline level for adults.
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Dyslexia: Evolution of a concept
Arthur L. Benton
- 01 Jan 1980
TL;DR: It was recognized at a relatively early stage of medical history that injury or disease of the brain in adult patients could cause a loss of a specific cognitive skill such as the ability to name objects or the able to read, but neither physicians nor educators were as quick to recognize that children might also suffer from specific cognitive disabilities as a consequence of congenital or early acquired disease.
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Visuospatial performance in left-handed patients with unilateral brain lesions
M.C. Masure,Arthur L. Benton +1 more
TL;DR: The findings of this study are in accord with the conclusion that hemispheric cerebral organisation with respect to the mediation of visuospatial performance do not differ in right-handers and left- handers.
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The Hécaen-Zangwill legacy: hemispheric dominance examined.
TL;DR: The research of Henry Hécaen and Oliver Zangwill on patients with unilateral brain lesions in the later 1940s and early 1950s ushered in the modern era of investigation of hemispheric cerebral dominance, and the field of inquiry expanded far beyond language and visual perception to encompass audition, somesthesis, motor performance, attentional processes, emotionality, and psychiatric disorders.
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