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Gori, Monica; Tinelli, Francesca; Sandini, Giulio; Cioni, Giovanni; Burr, David – Neuropsychologia, 2012
Multisensory integration of spatial information occurs late in childhood, at around eight years (Gori, Del Viva, Sandini, & Burr, 2008). For younger children, the haptic system dominates size discrimination and vision dominates orientation discrimination: the dominance may reflect "sensory calibration," and could have direct consequences on…
Descriptors: Vision, Visual Discrimination, Spatial Ability, Age Differences
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Gligorovic, Milica; Vucinic, Vesna; Eskirovic, Branka; Jablan, Branka – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
This research was conducted in order to examine the influence of manifest strabismus and stereoscopic vision on non-verbal abilities of visually impaired children aged between 7 and 15. The sample included 55 visually impaired children from the 1st to the 6th grade of elementary schools for visually impaired children in Belgrade. RANDOT stereotest…
Descriptors: Vision, Nonverbal Ability, Visual Impairments, Children
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Knowlton, Marie – Exceptional Children, 1997
Visual scanning behavior and efficiency of 22 children with visual disabilities and 25 children without disabilities (ages 3.5 to 10 years) were studied. Significant differences were found between groups in length of scan path and number of objects reported, but no significant differences in scanning efficiency. Coordinated binocular eye movements…
Descriptors: Children, Partial Vision, Vision, Visual Discrimination
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Morrongiello, Barbara A.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1995
Studied spatial knowledge in fully blind versus fully sighted four- to nine-year olds. Found that blind children performed as well as sighted on all tasks but one. (ETB)
Descriptors: Blindness, Children, Cognitive Mapping, Encoding (Psychology)