The 'Kennard effect' before Kennard. The early history of age and brain lesions
S. Finger and C. Wolf
Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130.
The role of age in recovery of function after brain damage has been of
particular interest since the mid-1930s when Kennard described sparing of
motor function following brain damage in infant monkeys. In the years since
her initial papers, this phenomenon has become known as the "Kennard
principle." This article describes a number of observations of the Kennard
principle prior to Kennard's first publication. Included are descriptions
of both early animal research and neurologic cases.
