Time Perception in Children Treated for a Cerebellar Medulloblastoma

Autor/inn/en	Droit-Volet, Sylvie; Zelanti, Pierre S.; Dellatolas, Georges; Kieffer, Virginie; El Massioui, Nicole; Brown, Bruce L.; Doyere, Valerie; Provasi, Joelle; Grill, Jacques
Titel	Time Perception in Children Treated for a Cerebellar Medulloblastoma
Quelle	In: Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 34 (2013) 1, S.480-494 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0891-4222
DOI	10.1016/j.ridd.2012.09.006
Schlagwörter	Children; Surgery; Intervals; Time; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Cancer; Comparative Analysis; Cognitive Ability; Psychomotor Skills; Neurological Impairments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Chirurgie; Zeit; Carcinoma; Karzinom; Krebs (med); Krebserkrankung; Denkfähigkeit; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung
Abstract	The aim of the present study was to investigate temporal abilities in children treated by surgery for a malignant tumor in the cerebellum. Children with a diagnosed medulloblastoma and age-paired control children were given a temporal discrimination task (bisection task) and a temporal reproduction task with two duration ranges, one shorter than 1 s and the other longer than 4 s. The motor and cognitive capacities of these children were also assessed by a battery of age-adapted neuropsychological tests. The results did not show any significant difference in performance between the children with or without cerebellar lesions in the temporal discrimination task. It was only in the temporal reproduction task that the children with cerebellar lesions reproduced longer and more variable durations than the other children, but only for the short stimulus durations (less than or equal to 1 s). In addition, a hierarchical regression analysis revealed that the best predictor of variance in temporal performance was a significantly lower processing speed in children with cerebellar lesions in comparison to their controls. These results indicated that the major cause of deficits in temporal judgments in children with cerebellar lesions was due to their inability to reproduce accurately short temporal intervals in association with low processing speed, rather than to a specific deficit in the perception of time. (Contains 4 tables and 6 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10