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Dent, Cathy H.; And Others – 1982
The relationship was explored between the ability to understand nonverbal metaphoric similarity and the ability to produce verbal metaphors to talk about that similarity. Subjects, 45 college students, were shown filmed scenes that depicted both metaphoric and literal similarity. Half of the scenes were of stationary objects and half of moving…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comprehension, Higher Education
Maxwell, David L.; And Others – 1992
This study investigated the premise that disordered temporal order perception in retarded readers can be seen in the serial processing of both nonverbal auditory and visual information, and examined whether such information processing deficits relate to level of reading ability. The adult subjects included 20 in the dyslexic group, 12 in the…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes