The validity of the Archimedes spiral as a diagnostic test of brain damage is examined experimentally. Results suggest that the different effects for normal and brain-damaged Ss reported in the literature can be attributed to the relative difficulty experienced by the brain-damaged S in maintaining fixation on the center of the spiral.
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