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Whiteside, John A. – Child Development, 1976
Threshold luminance necessary to evoke an eye movement was evaluated as a function of age (6-21 years) and visual angle (6-42 degrees from the fovea). (BRT)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Vision Tests
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Mohan, Philip J. – Child Development, 1975
The encoding processes of poor and average readers were compared in a short-term memory task. Since poor readers have difficulty in integrating audiovisual input, it was hypothesized that this pattern may be due to inadequate acoustic encoding. The results did not support the hypothesis. (Author/CS)
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Memory
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Bryden, M. P. – Child Development, 1972
Matched groups of good and poor readers were administered a task that involved making same-different judgments for various combinations of auditory sequential, visual sequential, and visual spatial patterns. (Author)
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Elementary School Students, Pattern Recognition, Performance Factors
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Vande Voort, Lewis; And Others – Child Development, 1972
The results fail to support the hypothesis that intersensory integration is the sole or even the primary developmental skill accounting for matching task improvement with increasing age. The hypothesis that retarded readers fail to develop skills in intersensory integration is also not supported. (Authors)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests, Data Analysis, Developmental Tasks