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The phenomenon of rostral dominance (when paired cutaneous stimuli are applied to the body, the more rostral one is perceived with extinction of the other) in brain damaged patients is perhaps related to a distorted concept of body image. A correlation is demonstrated between this dominance in children and their body image as demonstrated in drawings. A similar correlation is suggested by the findings in brain damaged adults.