A comparison of human figure drawings of 40 brain-damaged, 40 psychiatric, and 40 normal Ss, employing a modification of the Goodenough Draw-A-Person test, suggested a regression in perceptual maturity along a complexity gradient for the brain-damaged while other cognitive processes were essentially unaffected. Bender-Gestalt scores, computed using the Pascal and Suttell method (1951), were compared with the complexity ratings for brain-damaged and psychiatric Ss. Reproduction of visual stimuli was significantly correlated to the level of complex form perception.
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