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Stamps, Arthur E., III – Environment and Behavior, 2013
This article reports seven new, original findings, based on 4 experiments, 56 environmental scenes, and 71 participants, on how the factors of area over which one could walk (boundary height, boundary porosity, and boundary proximity) influence perceived spaciousness or enclosure. Perceived spaciousness was most strongly related by the area over…
Descriptors: Urban Environment, Physical Environment, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli
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Lifshitz, Hefziba; Shtein, Sarit; Weiss, Itzhak; Svisrsky, Naama – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2011
We previously reported a meta-analysis of explicit memory studies in populations with intellectual disability (ID). The current study discusses the educational implications of this meta-analysis. The main factors at the core of these implications can be divided into two categories: those related to task characteristics (e.g., depth of processing,…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, Memory, Mild Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
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Calkins, Monica E.; Iacono, William G.; Ones, Deniz S. – Brain and Cognition, 2008
Several forms of eye movement dysfunction (EMD) are regarded as promising candidate endophenotypes of schizophrenia. Discrepancies in individual study results have led to inconsistent conclusions regarding particular aspects of EMD in relatives of schizophrenia patients. To quantitatively evaluate and compare the candidacy of smooth pursuit,…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Schizophrenia, Patients, Genetics