Factors Underlying Impairment of Visual Figure-Ground Discrimination and Sorting Tasks in Hemisphere-Damaged Patients1

This paper, though it deals with adult brain damaged patients, discusses a topic which is relative to the field of learning disabilities. Visual figure-ground discrimination and "aphasia-like" problems are present in so many children who suffer with a learning handicap that this study and its findings, will be of interest to many researchers.-C. C. E.