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Clinton, Virginia; Morsanyi, Kinga; Alibali, Martha W.; Nathan, Mitchell J. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Learning from visual representations is enhanced when learners appropriately integrate corresponding visual and verbal information. This study examined the effects of two methods of promoting integration, color coding and labeling, on learning about probabilistic reasoning from a table and text. Undergraduate students (N = 98) were randomly…
Descriptors: Visual Discrimination, Color, Coding, Probability
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Poplu, Gerald; Ripoll, Hubert; Mavromatis, Sebastien; Baratgin, Jean – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2008
The aim of this study was to determine what visual information expert soccer players encode when they are asked to make a decision. We used a repetition-priming paradigm to test the hypothesis that experts encode a soccer pattern's structure independently of the players' physical characteristics (i.e., posture and morphology). The participants…
Descriptors: Physical Characteristics, Team Sports, Visual Stimuli, Athletes
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Pammer, Kristen; Lavis, Ruth; Cornelissen, Piers – Dyslexia, 2004
This study was designed to investigate the importance of spatial encoding in reading, with particular emphasis on visuo-spatial encoding mechanisms. Thirty one school children participated in the first study in which they were measured on their ability to solve a centrally presented spatial encoding task, as well as their sensitivity to the…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Cognitive Processes, Visual Measures, Spatial Ability
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Hurford, David P.; Sanders, Raymond E. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1995
Ten second graders with reading disabilities were presented with the visual analog of an auditory phonological training approach (intrasyllable discrimination) previously studied. Results indicated that children receiving the intervention significantly improved their phonological processing abilities. (SLD)
Descriptors: Coding, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students