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Eli Vakil1, Hefziba Lifshitz, David Tzuriel
1Department of Psychology and Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. vakile@mail.biu.ac.il
Abstract:
Eighteen adults with intellectual disability (ID) and 20 children with typical development (TD) matched for cognitive level, participated in this study. Participants solved perceptual and conceptual analogies (from the Conceptual and Perceptual Analogical Modifiability Test-CPAM) while having their eye movements monitored. As predicted, the overall percent of correct answers was significantly higher for the TD group compared to that of the ID group. Comparison of the eye movement pattern of each group while solving the analogies revealed that in addition to the quantitative difference between the groups, there is a qualitative difference in the process of solving the analogies. The difference in the scanning pattern between the TD and the ID groups is interpreted as a reflection of two different types of strategies, Constructive matching and Response elimination, respectively.
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