Beate Hermelin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beate Hermelin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beate |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermelin |
| SIGNATURE | HERMELIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maudsley Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The memory structure of autistic idiot-savant mnemonists
The memory organization of six autistic mnemonists was investigated in two experiments. The first of these provided some evidence that the material of special interest to the subjects, in the present instance bus numbers, was stored in memory in a categorized form. The second study showed that though the idiot-savant mnemonists did not differ from controls in the level of their general memory performance, the factor structure of a number of memor…
Visual memory and motor programmes: Their use by idiot-savant artists and controls
Artistically gifted children of normal intelligence and idiot-savant artists as well as two groups of IQ-matched controls were tested for their perception of and recognition memory for shapes. They were also tested for their capacity to graphically reproduce the shapes on sight (copying) or from memory. The material consisted of designs of two levels of complexity and structure.Results showed that while IQ was the determining factor in matching a…
Spatial Representations in Mathematically and in Artistically Gifted Children
Mathematically and artistically gifted children and two IQ-matched control groups were compared for their abilities to carry out several types of visual-spatial tasks. One type of task was verbally presented and required a verbally formulated answer, while another was presented visually and the answer involved a choice of one of several visually presented alternatives. Two other types of problem were investigated, and these were respectively conc…
Naming and classifying: Intelligence and frequency effects
Intellectually gifted children and controls were compared on their ability to name and classify words and pictures of high or low frequency. High IQ children had shorter response latencies than other children and also showed no word frequency effects in the word naming tasks. When having to recall or recognize words of different frequency in a second experiment, no significant frequency effects in recognition were found for either group. With rec…
The Recall of Digits by Normal, Deaf and Autistic Children
Normal, autistic and deaf children were tested for their immediate memory of visually presented digits. The digits were exposed either with or without a left to right spatial display arrangement, and had to be recalled forwards as well as backwards. Normal and deaf children tended to be sensitive to both display conditions and recall requirements whereas autistic children were mainly affected by direction of recall. Serial position effects in the…
Remembering of Words by Psychotic and Subnormal Children
It was predicted that recall of structured and unstructured verbal material would differ less in a group of psychotic children than in subnormal controls. This hypothesis was confirmed. In addition, psychotic children had better recall scores than the controls
Visual Analogies of Verbal Operations
Language was analysed into four arbitrarily selected linguistic operations. These operations, seriation, cross-modal coding, immediate memory and cue matching, were translated into visual forms and presented as four tasks. If these tasks were solved by a subject it could be assumed that he understood the basis of linguistic operations whether he could speak or not. Aphasics and the deaf learned the tasks, thus establishing their competence with l…
Visual Imperception in Psychotic Children
Psychotic speaking and non‐speaking children and subnormal controls were compared on visual discrimination tasks. Tasks which could be solved through the use of kinaesthetic, brightness or size cues did not differentiate between the groups, while those which involved shape differences and directional orientation did
Effects of Sensory Input and Sensory Dominance on Severely Disturbed, Autistic Children and on Subnormal Controls
Sensory dominance in children differs with age, development and experience and may be a diagnostic differential in the case of autistic children. This hypothesis was explored in three experiments with autistic children, one concerned with sensory dominance, one with sense discrimination learning and one with the dynamics of this learning process. Imbecile children of the same performance I.Q. were used as controls. The experiments showed that psy…
Recall in normals and subnormals of like mental age
Recognition of Shapes by Normal and Subnormal Children
Normal and subnormal children, matched for mental age, were compared on visual and stereognostic shape recognition. While some subjects were required to explore and recognize the items in the same sensory modality, others had to recognize them in the opposite modality from the one in which they were initially presented. No differences between the conditions were observed in normal children. The imbeciles obtained results similar to those of the n…
Some Effects of Word Learning in Imbeciles
Two experiments concerned with generalisation between words in imbecile children were carried out. The first of these compared the effects of learning three word lists, differently connected with a common list of test words, for amount and direction of transfer on the second task. It was found that while no difference in rates of learning occurred in the control group, negative transfer effects were evident with subjects who learned two lists of …
Discrimination and reversal learning in imbeciles
Discrimination and reversal learning in imbeciles
The memory structure of autistic idiot-savant mnemonists
The memory organization of six autistic mnemonists was investigated in two experiments. The first of these provided some evidence that the material of special interest to the subjects, in the present instance bus numbers, was stored in memory in a categorized form. The second study showed that though the idiot-savant mnemonists did not differ from controls in the level of their general memory performance, the factor structure of a number of memor…
Spatial Representations in Mathematically and in Artistically Gifted Children
Mathematically and artistically gifted children and two IQ-matched control groups were compared for their abilities to carry out several types of visual-spatial tasks. One type of task was verbally presented and required a verbally formulated answer, while another was presented visually and the answer involved a choice of one of several visually presented alternatives. Two other types of problem were investigated, and these were respectively conc…
Visual memory and motor programmes: Their use by idiot-savant artists and controls
Artistically gifted children of normal intelligence and idiot-savant artists as well as two groups of IQ-matched controls were tested for their perception of and recognition memory for shapes. They were also tested for their capacity to graphically reproduce the shapes on sight (copying) or from memory. The material consisted of designs of two levels of complexity and structure.Results showed that while IQ was the determining factor in matching a…
Remembering of Words by Psychotic and Subnormal Children
It was predicted that recall of structured and unstructured verbal material would differ less in a group of psychotic children than in subnormal controls. This hypothesis was confirmed. In addition, psychotic children had better recall scores than the controls
Some Effects of Word Learning in Imbeciles
Two experiments concerned with generalisation between words in imbecile children were carried out. The first of these compared the effects of learning three word lists, differently connected with a common list of test words, for amount and direction of transfer on the second task. It was found that while no difference in rates of learning occurred in the control group, negative transfer effects were evident with subjects who learned two lists of …
Discrimination and reversal learning in imbeciles
Recognition of Shapes by Normal and Subnormal Children
Normal and subnormal children, matched for mental age, were compared on visual and stereognostic shape recognition. While some subjects were required to explore and recognize the items in the same sensory modality, others had to recognize them in the opposite modality from the one in which they were initially presented. No differences between the conditions were observed in normal children. The imbeciles obtained results similar to those of the n…
Recall in normals and subnormals of like mental age
Effects of Sensory Input and Sensory Dominance on Severely Disturbed, Autistic Children and on Subnormal Controls
Sensory dominance in children differs with age, development and experience and may be a diagnostic differential in the case of autistic children. This hypothesis was explored in three experiments with autistic children, one concerned with sensory dominance, one with sense discrimination learning and one with the dynamics of this learning process. Imbecile children of the same performance I.Q. were used as controls. The experiments showed that psy…
Visual Analogies of Verbal Operations
Language was analysed into four arbitrarily selected linguistic operations. These operations, seriation, cross-modal coding, immediate memory and cue matching, were translated into visual forms and presented as four tasks. If these tasks were solved by a subject it could be assumed that he understood the basis of linguistic operations whether he could speak or not. Aphasics and the deaf learned the tasks, thus establishing their competence with l…
Visual Imperception in Psychotic Children
Psychotic speaking and non‐speaking children and subnormal controls were compared on visual discrimination tasks. Tasks which could be solved through the use of kinaesthetic, brightness or size cues did not differentiate between the groups, while those which involved shape differences and directional orientation did
Remembering of Words by Psychotic and Subnormal Children
It was predicted that recall of structured and unstructured verbal material would differ less in a group of psychotic children than in subnormal controls. This hypothesis was confirmed. In addition, psychotic children had better recall scores than the controls
The Recall of Digits by Normal, Deaf and Autistic Children
Normal, autistic and deaf children were tested for their immediate memory of visually presented digits. The digits were exposed either with or without a left to right spatial display arrangement, and had to be recalled forwards as well as backwards. Normal and deaf children tended to be sensitive to both display conditions and recall requirements whereas autistic children were mainly affected by direction of recall. Serial position effects in the…
Naming and classifying: Intelligence and frequency effects
Intellectually gifted children and controls were compared on their ability to name and classify words and pictures of high or low frequency. High IQ children had shorter response latencies than other children and also showed no word frequency effects in the word naming tasks. When having to recall or recognize words of different frequency in a second experiment, no significant frequency effects in recognition were found for either group. With rec…
Spatial Representations in Mathematically and in Artistically Gifted Children
Mathematically and artistically gifted children and two IQ-matched control groups were compared for their abilities to carry out several types of visual-spatial tasks. One type of task was verbally presented and required a verbally formulated answer, while another was presented visually and the answer involved a choice of one of several visually presented alternatives. Two other types of problem were investigated, and these were respectively conc…
Visual memory and motor programmes: Their use by idiot-savant artists and controls
Artistically gifted children of normal intelligence and idiot-savant artists as well as two groups of IQ-matched controls were tested for their perception of and recognition memory for shapes. They were also tested for their capacity to graphically reproduce the shapes on sight (copying) or from memory. The material consisted of designs of two levels of complexity and structure.Results showed that while IQ was the determining factor in matching a…
The memory structure of autistic idiot-savant mnemonists
The memory organization of six autistic mnemonists was investigated in two experiments. The first of these provided some evidence that the material of special interest to the subjects, in the present instance bus numbers, was stored in memory in a categorized form. The second study showed that though the idiot-savant mnemonists did not differ from controls in the level of their general memory performance, the factor structure of a number of memor…
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