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Walker, Marianna M.; Rastatter, Michael P. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2003
This study measured naming reaction times of 40 normal or reading disordered (RD) children to picture stimuli of varying vocabulary age and spatial dimension. Dimension appeared to differentiate between the two groups with the control group faster in naming three-dimensional pictures and the RD group faster in naming two-dimensional stimuli. RD…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Expressive Language, Pictorial Stimuli

Walker, Marianna M.; Barrow, Irene; Rastatter, Michael P. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2002
This study of rapid picture naming by 20 normally developing children (mean age 11 years) found significant differences between two-and three-dimensional pictures for higher level vocabulary items, but not for lower-level vocabulary items, suggesting that dimensionality may be a critical feature for rapid lexical access for higher-level picture…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Expressive Language