Figure-Ground Discrimination and Figural Closure among Brain-Damaged Children

Abstract

In summary, the present research extended the work of Vegas and Frye (1963) and of Rubin (1969) to intellectually normal samples and confirmed the findings of these authors that brain-damaged children did not differ significantly from non-organic controls in the correct perception of figure-ground relationships. Further, the present data indicated that the involvement of the variable of visual closure in the figure-ground isolation task did not significantly discriminate between the performance of the two groups. Finally, the data suggested that, while figure-ground discrimination is essentially a perceptual task for non-organic controls, this kind of performance is significantly correlated with intelligence for brain-damaged children probably constituting a cognitive as well as perceptual task for them.