The performances of 29 normal and 29 neurologically impaired-learning disabled children (aged 7.3 to 15.3 yr.) were evaluated on unfamiliar face and common object recognition tasks. Although the normal children performed better, the relative difficulty of face and object recognition was the same for both groups.
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