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Peer reviewedKinsbourne, Marcel; Lempert, Henrietta – Human Development, 1979
Reviews pertinent developmental and neuropsychological literature and arrives at a hypothesis relating the left brain lateralization of speech to the origin of early naming as part of selective (right-biased) orienting to perceived salience or change. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Lateral Dominance, Literature Reviews
Peer reviewedWest, Robin L.; And Others – Human Development, 1978
Studies the effects of perceptual salience on performance in problems requiring the coordination of information. Subjects were groups of children, younger adults, and older adults. For each of the age groups, those problems containing the most salient information were solved faster and more accurately than problems containing the least salient…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning
Peer reviewedKugelmass, S.; Lieblich, A. – Human Development, 1979
Israeli Arab- and Jewish-educated children were given perceptual exploration tasks to test the effects of language on directionality in reading and writing habits. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Arabic, Children, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
