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Wilhelmsen, Gunvor B – Improving Schools, 2016
Although good visual capacity is essential for children's learning, we have limited understanding of the various visual functions among school starters. In order to extend this knowledge, a small-scale study was undertaken involving 24 preschool children age 5-6 years who completed a test battery originally designed for visual impairment…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Visual Impairments, Visual Acuity, Gender Differences
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Geringswald, Franziska; Herbik, Anne; Hofmüller, Wolfram; Hoffmann, Michael B.; Pollmann, Stefan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Allocation of visual attention is crucial for encoding items into visual long-term memory. In free vision, attention is closely linked to the center of gaze, raising the question whether foveal vision loss entails suboptimal deployment of attention and subsequent impairment of object encoding. To investigate this question, we examined visual…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Long Term Memory
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Enns, James T.; MacDonald, Sarah C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Visual artists and photographers believe that a viewer's gaze can be guided by selective use of image clarity and blur, but there is little systematic research. In this study, participants performed several eye-tracking tasks with the same naturalistic photographs, including recognition memory for the entire photo, as well as recognition memory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Eye Movements, Photography, Visual Stimuli