The Daily Excerpt wrote:
> [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
>
Sounds like Rasmussen has a 'reasonable test obsession' and needs an
escort from the humane correction stable.
What do the children think of their facial memory disablement?
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