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Hartley, Calum; Allen, Melissa L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
This research investigated whether symbolic understanding of pictures in low-functioning children with autism is mediated by iconicity and language. In Experiment 1, participants were taught novel words paired with unfamiliar pictures that varied in iconicity (black-and-white line drawings, greyscale photographs, colour line drawings, colour…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Autism, Cognitive Ability, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Wax, Murray L.; Luhman, Reid A. – 1974
The study examined the relation of language use and logical thought to social experience with both age and class held constant. The primary assumptions under study were: that the logic of symbolic grouping was highly sensitive to a child's experience with the objects to which that logic was applied; that the existence of diglossia in a bilingual…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes