Differences in the rates of visual information-processing in 8- and 10-year-old reflective and impulsive children were measured. (JMB)

This study investigated the hypothesis that specific reading disability is caused by visual-spatial disorder. Poor and normal readers in the second and sixth grades were presented both verbal and nonverbal stimuli and asked to identify and/or reproduce them orally and graphically. Results are discussed. (CS)

Two experiments investigated the process by which children encode briefly presented spatial positions. First, third, and fifth graders were asked to judge whether a test dot occupied the same position on a card as any one of a number of dots which had been presented tachistoscopically. (JMB)

Children were asked to draw sticks and discs that were foreshortened and not foreshortened. Seven- and 12-year-old children used a partial change of shape in drawing foreshortened sticks and a full change of shape in drawing foreshortened discs. (BC)

Results of two experiments minimizing verbal encoding and response demands indicate that when the ceiling effects in no-mask target recognition are removed, the visual information processing rates for children and adults can be considered equivalent. (Author/RH)