Presents a study which supports the contribution of: (1) physiognomic perception, (2) ego strength, and (3) cognitive complexity to successful aesthetic communication. (MB)

Discusses the value of making students visually literate. Stresses the technique of visual rehearsal and offers suggestions for incorporating visual rehearsal activities into the classroom. (FL)

Examines visual cognitive processes having to do with perception, the assimilation of new information, and learning by analogy, and identifies instructional strategies to control each process. Discussion of relationships between visual learning and instruction includes implications for research and design. An extensive bibliography is provided.…

Two experiments examined the perceptual processing of letters embedded within one- and two-syllable words and visually similar nonwords. Results suggest that (1) the size of compelling perceptual units seems limited, and (2) unit size is not necessarily related to the correspondence between letter order and pronounceability. (Author/BW)

An awareness of negative effects of mind set is promoted, and ways to minimize harmful sets are suggested. Visual perception, Eistelung effect, and functional fixedness are discussed as categories of potentially negative mind sets, with several examples given of each. Fixation combinations are noted as well. (MP)

Three experiments demonstrated (1) habituation and long-term retention of habituation to a tone stimulus in third-grade children, (2) specificity of habituation to an auditory stimulus in first- but not fifth-grade children, and (3) specificity of habituation in fifth-grade children in response suppression when a cross-modality stimulus change was…

Draws from perceptual and cognitive psychology to present a theoretical basis for the principles of interpretation developed by Freeman Tilden. Emphasized is cognitive map theory which holds that information units people receive, code and store are structured into cognitive models intended to represent the environment. (Author/WB)

A eulogy to art educator and researcher Henry Schaefer-Simmern, explaining his theory of gestalt visual conceiving and artistic cognition. (SJL)

Apparently contradictory findings regarding the locus of information processing differences between retarded and nonretarded persons were discussed. (Author)