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Arnheim, Rudolf – Educational Horizons, 1993
Visual learning enhances cognitive understanding of abstract concepts. Perception of such ideas as causality is enriched by visual examples. Perceiving should not be separated from thinking. (SK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Development, Comprehension

Eisner, Elliot W. – Educational Horizons, 1993
Visual learning, the capacity to construe meaning from visual images and to create meaningful visual forms, distills complex information and presents information directly. It plays an important role in development of the ability to abstract and decode. (SK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Coding, Cognitive Development, Sensory Integration