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Peer reviewedKail, Robert – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1991
Children and adults were tested on a mental rotation task in which letters were presented in different orientations. The task was performed by itself or with a memory task. Results indicated that the relation of response time to stimulus orientation in the rotation task was the same in both conditions. (BC)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedMcFarland, Carl E., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1978
A modification of Posner's letter-matching paradigm is employed to study the development of abstract visual and name codes for letters in second, fourth, and sixth grade students. (CM)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Associative Learning, Codification
Peer reviewedGattuso, Bea; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1991
Explored the notion that children's difficulty in reading is a sign of a general inability to selectively attend to parts of perceptual wholes. Children and adults classified triads of spoken syllables and visual objects. Classification of speech was related to reading and spelling ability, but not to classification of visual stimuli. (BC)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Classification, College Students
