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PERIPHERAL AND CENTRAL HANDICAP AND ENCODING
Author(s) -
O'Connor N.,
Hermelin B.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1983.tb00102.x
Subject(s) - psychology , encoding (memory) , cognition , information flow , modality (human–computer interaction) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , point (geometry) , autism , peripheral , neuroscience , medicine , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , human–computer interaction
SUMMARY A linear model of information processing led to many experiments on learning difficulties in the subnormal and severely subnormal. It assumes learning can result from a break in the chain of information flow at any point but overlooks compensatory mechanisms common to a developing organism. To compensate for the model's difficulties, we compared blind and deaf children with subnormal and subnormal autistic children (i.e. localized with general cognitive incapacities). Absence of a modality led to alternative encoding strategies, but in certain circumstances they also occurred in the centrally handicapped. Reasons for the similarities and differences are discussed.