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This investigation examined individual differences in cognitive functions amongst Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian children using Luria's neuropsychological theory of functional organisation in the human brain. Luria stated that cerebral activities were the result of complex, organised, functional systems which develop in response to environmental and social demands and depend on the participation of three principal functional units in the brain. Study 1 sought to identify the 2 processing dimensions of the unit for information integration with samples of desert Aboriginal and rural white Australian children, using processing marker measures and tasks from previous research on Aboriginal cognition. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses showed that a 2 factor solution provided equally good fit to both sets of data. |
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