A Digit Copying Test and the Gibson Spiral Maze were administered to compare the psychomotor performance of 14 elderly brain-damaged patients, 20 non-brain-damaged psychiatric controls and 40 normal controls. On each task the brain-damaged patients were significantly more retarded than control Ss.
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