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Pyszkowski, Irene S. – Journal of Clinical Reading: Research and Programs, 1986
Reports on part of a larger study that seeks to determine visual screening needs as they apply to reading, learning, and classroom environment. Concludes that, when carefully interpreted, an analysis of eye motion in the reading act can supply important information for teachers and parents. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Eye Movements, Reading Ability, Reading Diagnosis
Cimbalo, Richard S.; Siska, Bonnie Lou – 1982
A study tested the theory that an item that stands out from its background is better remembered than one that is similar to the background (the isolation effect). Specifically, the study examined whether the isolation effect would be greater when there was a larger and more confusing mass of background items, whether position of the isolated item…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Memory
Wolford, George – 1973
Seven experiments were run to determine the precise nature of some of the variables which affect the processing of short-term visual information. In particular, retinal location, report order, processing order, lateral masking, and redundancy were studied along with the nature of the confusion errors which are made in the full report procedure.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Paired Associate Learning, Reading Processes, Reading Research
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Dwyer, Francis M. – Reading Psychology, 1988
Argues that the use of visuals specifically designed to complement printed instruction can significantly improve student achievement of certain types of educational objectives, but that visualization itself represents only a mild rehearsal strategy which will not always optimize student achievement of the more complex levels of learning. (RS)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prior Learning, Reading Research, Schemata (Cognition)
Hinds, Lillian R. – Journal of Clinical Reading: Research and Programs, 1983
Describes three studies relating to visual functioning. Finds that reading retardation is the result of a clustering of factors, of multiple causation. Discusses the need to determine whether or not a student has the necessary lateral and other functional vision skills to maintain sufficient body energy for the demands of the reading task. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Reading Ability, Reading Processes
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Zenker, Edward R.; Frey, Diana Z. – Journal of Reading, 1985
Relates an experiment in which relaxation techniques and visual image training enhanced poor readers' comprehension and literal recall of narrative prose. (HOD)
Descriptors: Grade 10, Imagery, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Hayes, David A.; Henk, William – 1984
This study investigated the use readers make of visual and verbal illustration to understand and remember what they have read. Specific focus was placed on readers' use of pictures and analogies to understand and remember written directions for a spatial manipulation task. The independent variables measured were type of text, mode of illustration,…
Descriptors: Analogy, Comparative Analysis, High Schools, Illustrations
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Gardner, David C.; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1981
Evaluates the use of self-instructional learning packages using a visual image approach for teaching the technical language of five trade areas to learning handicapped high school students enrolled in regular vocational education classes. (FL)
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Reading Research
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Emery, Winston G. – Reading Psychology, 1988
Tests a theoretical model of hemispheric brain activity which attempts to explain the relation between visual ability and verbal written compositions. Concludes that the model which indicates that synthesis is a right brain activity and that visualizing activity can assist synthesis is supported for right-handed students. (RS)
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Electroencephalography, Lateral Dominance, Models
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Porpodas, C. D.; And Others – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1990
Investigates whether the prelexical phonological route develops prior to the visual route while learning to read Greek. Finds reading accuracy unaffected by the main psycholinguistic properties of words; chronological age did not influence long-term reading acquisition; and beginning readers used phonological information in reading but started to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Stages, Emergent Literacy, Greek
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Logan, John W.; And Others – Reading Psychology, 1987
Describes the results of a survey of highly successful junior high and middle school students, which asked open-ended questions about their perceptions of spelling. Indicates that visualizing is the most common strategy for learning new words, followed by dictionary use and repeating words over and over. (SKC)
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Strategies, Memorization, Psychological Studies
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Curtiss, Deborah – Reading Psychology, 1988
Describes a college teaching experience in which active visual analysis (hands-on deconstruction of visual statements to their constituent elements and principles) had an unblocking effect on concomitant writing assignments. Suggests that students can improve both verbal and visual articulateness when modes of perceiving and thinking are used…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reading Research, Teaching Methods, Verbal Learning
Blanchard, Harry E. – 1986
A series of studies investigated the manner in which information is utilized during fixations in continuous reading. Utilization refers to visual information being processed to further the comprehension of the text being read, in contrast to registration, which refers to visual information simply being available to the brain. The studies…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Eye Fixations, Higher Education, Memory
Sieroff, Eric; Posner, Michael I. – 1986
Work with patients with attentional deficits produced by posterior cerebral lesions has shown that such patients can identify words correctly even when they fail to report letters in nonwords contralateral to the lesion. Because of this, it has been assumed in cognitive neuropsychology that lesions do not produce new phenomena but instead provide…
Descriptors: Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Woodley, John W. – 1984
To gain a better understanding of visual perception in reading, a study tested the predictive validity of the Goodman Model of Reading by measuring the extent to which 82 college students (graduate and undergraduate) were able to perceive and accurately report 10 lines of print. It also attempted to integrate research conducted over the past 100…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Reader Text Relationship
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