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Mather, Emily; Plunkett, Kim – Infancy, 2009
During the second year of life, infants develop a preference to attach novel labels to novel objects. This behavior is commonly known as "mutual exclusivity" (Markman, 1989). In an intermodal preferential looking experiment with 19.5- and 22.5-month-olds, stimulus repetition was critical for observing mutual exclusivity. On the first…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Toddlers, Visual Discrimination, Memory
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Mottron, Laurent; Dawson, Michelle; Soulieres, Isabelle; Hubert, Benedicte; Burack, Jake – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
We propose an "Enhanced Perceptual Functioning" model encompassing the main differences between autistic and non-autistic social and non-social perceptual processing: locally oriented visual and auditory perception, enhanced low-level discrimination, use of a more posterior network in "complex" visual tasks, enhanced perception…
Descriptors: Autism, Visual Perception, Models, Auditory Perception
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Burton, Grace M.; Meyers, Marcee J. – Mathematics Teacher, 1987
Specifics are given to help the "regular classroom" teacher assist the learning disabled (LD) student to overcome factors that interfere with performance. Sample relationships between LD deficits and possible difficulties in secondary mathematics are presented. (PK)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Homework, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Education
Noir, Pascal; Peifer, Michel – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
Describes techniques used for teaching French language students to recognize, discriminate between, and pronounce the four French nasal vowels. Includes twenty tongue-twisting sentences exemplifying the different vowels. (MSE)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, French
Horowitz, Frances D. – 1973
This monograph is a collection of papers describing a series of loosely related studies of visual attention, auditory stimulation, and language discrimination in young infants. Titles include: (1) Infant Attention and Discrimination: Methodological and Substantive Issues; (2) The Addition of Auditory Stimulation (Music) and an Interspersed…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli