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RECOGNITION OF SHAPES BY NORMAL AND SUBNORMAL CHILDREN
Author(s) -
HERMELIN BEATE,
O'CONNOR N.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1961.tb00791.x
Subject(s) - psychology , modality (human–computer interaction) , audiology , stimulus modality , coding (social sciences) , developmental psychology , sensory system , cognitive psychology , medicine , artificial intelligence , statistics , computer science , mathematics
Normal and subnormal children, matched for mental age, were compared on visual and stereognostic shape recognition. While some subjects were required to explore and recognize the items in the same sensory modality, others had to recognize them in the opposite modality from the one in which they were initially presented. No differences between the conditions were observed in normal children. The imbeciles obtained results similar to those of the normals, except with the like modality stereognostic procedure. This resulted in significantly higher recognition scores than were obtained under the other conditions. It is suggested that absence of verbal coding in the cross modality tests, and relatively intact stereognostic discrimination ability in imbeciles may explain the results.