10 children with withdrawn personality disturbances showed significantly greater response variability on a stereoscopic size-discrimination task than did children with very aggressive conduct disturbances or normal controls. It is proposed that mechanisms associated with the reliable initiation and maintenance of cognition are more salient than those involving primary sensory/perceptual coding.
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