Children's hearing deteriorates markedly in the presence of unpredictable noise. To explore why, 187 school-age children (4-11 years) and 15 adults performed a tone-in-noise detection task, in which the masking noise varied randomly between every presentation. Selective attention was evaluated by measuring the degree to which listeners were…

This study investigated the importance of auditory feedback in the speech of 3- and 4-year-old preschool children and in adults. The findings indicate that auditory feedback is involved in the regulation of vocal intensity, even in children as young as 3 years. (JMB)

Explores the role of language in peer interaction and play of deaf children, taking into consideration the effect of hearing status, familiarity, and experience in playing with deaf children. (HOD)

Compared 12 right-handed adolescent females with a history of idiopathic precocious puberty to 12 closely pair-matched normal controls of similar maturational status to test the association of physical maturation with cognitive abilities and the mediation of this association by hemispheric specialization. (HOD)

Ancient philosophers, such as Plato and Euclid, believed in an extramission theory of visual perception, which held that there are emissions from the eyes during the act of vision. Three studies, comparing college and elementary school students, found a decrease over age in the belief in extramission and an increase in the belief that vision…