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Selective Attention Deficits in Poor Readers? Dichotic Listening, Speeded Classification, and Auditory and Visual Central and Incidental Learning Tasks.
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Pelham, William E. – Child Development, 1979
Results as a whole did not support the hypothesis that poor readers show deficits in selective attention relative to age-matched normal readers. (RH)
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Perception, Classification, Cognitive Development
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Preference for Auditory Modality in Young Children.
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Sloutsky, Vladimir M.; Napolitano, Amanda C. – Child Development, 2003
Four experiments tested the hypothesis that the importance of linguistic labels for young children's conceptual organization stems from a privileged processing status of auditory input over visual input. Findings indicated that when auditory and visual stimuli were presented separately, 4-year-olds were likely to process both kinds of stimuli,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Classification, Cognitive Processes