[QUOTE] Children with NLD (non-verbal learning disability) generally do
well on most elements of aptitude tests except for those that involve
visual spatial processing, such as recognizing and working with shapes.
..... Rasmussen and Liddell put 14 children with NLD --12 boys and two
girls-- through a number of tests, including showing them patterns of
dots and then showing them the same patterns a few minutes later to see
if the children recognized them. The children did well at this task,
but when a similar experiment was conducted using pictures of people's
faces, the children did poorly in recognizing the faces, especially
shortly after they first saw them. They did better at recognizing faces
the more time they had to process them. "It's interesting that they had
no problem remembering the dots but had significant difficulty
remembering the faces," Rasmussen said. "We do not know exactly why
children with NLD have such difficulty with facial memory, so this
study certainly opens up the door for further research."
FROM http://www5.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uoa-sra081005.php
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