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The Information Capacity of Young Mental Defectives in an Assembly Task

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

John Annett
John Annett*
Affiliation:
The Burden Mental Research Department, Stoke Park Hospital, Bristol
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It is the aim ofthis paper to present some ideas for a new and practical approach to some of the problems of assessment and placing of mental defectives with respect to motor abilities. Attention will be drawn to some theoretical confusion about the relationship between mental and motor abilities in the mentally deficient population and finally some experiments illustrating the possibility of a new approach will be described.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 103 , Issue 432 , July 1957 , pp. 621 - 631
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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