Left-hemisphere-damaged (with Verbal IQ deficits) and right-hemisphere-damaged (with Performance IQ deficits) male, adult patients were compared on Halstead Category Test Performance. Deficits of approximately the same magnitude were found. These results and other evidence question the importance of language mediation on nonverbal, visual-spatial abstracting tests.
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