Differential disruption of simple drawing movements in patients with unilateral brain lesion

In examining the ability of patients with unilateral brain lesion to copy simple drawings of a house and a human face, 18 apoplectic patients confirmed by CT scanning were studied. We found that their drawing of a house was inferior to that of a face in 19 tests (90.5%) of 17 patients (94.4%). Marked differences existed in nearly 90% of these tests. No difference was found between the right-hemisphere and left-hemisphere group, except that more patients of the right-hemisphere group showed contralateral neglect, but in the house drawings only.