Compared retention functions for children with those for young adults and elderly subjects in continuous recognition memory for words over retention intervals ranging from 2 minutes to 2 hours. (SDH)

Urges teachers to move beyond the technical in the classroom and become storytellers who impart the awe and mystery as well as humanity of science to youth. (BR)

Two attempts to facilitate the aural reception of prose material in educationally subnormal children were compared. (Editor)

Article discussed the background for an art program that focused on the powers of communication that the visual language of art provided. (Author/RK)

Discusses two experiments in which middle-aged, elderly, professional, and non-professional males and females were given the Conceptual Styles Test. An analysis of variance on the percentage of complementary responses revealed significant effects for age, occupation, and th interaction between age and sex. (ED)

Article focused on the power of visuals - to carry information, to evoke emotion, to order thinking - a new and growing power in the education of children. (Author/RK)

Tests the hypothesis that there should be an early age range during which inhibiting and facilitating sets do not result in appropriately differential behavior, and that at a subsequent age, there should occur differentiation of GSR conditioning rate as a function of the differential sets. (Author/SDH)

The recall of picture and word triads was examined in three experiments that manipulated the type of distraction in a Brown-Peterson short-term retention task. (Editor)

The emotional impact of televised interpersonal dramas was investigated, with specific emphasis being given to age- and gender-related differences in children's spontaneous nonverbal expressive reactions. Participants were 27 female and 22 male children in three age groups: 4-5, 7-8, and 13-14 years. Facial expressions were unobtrusively…

A study of the nature and function of British Sign Language (BSL) as used in the British deaf community is described. The study examined two hypotheses: (1) that the notion of diglossia applies to the British deaf signing community, and (2) that the low variety of BSL will exploit the visual medium in its grammar to a greater extent than the high…

Fifty-eight kindergarten children were assessed on traditional presentations involving the conservation of number and liquid. Each conservation test contained two different items and began with the stimuli quantitatively and perceptually equal. Two other conservation tasks for number and liquid with initial nonequivalence followed. Performance on…

Event-related Potentials (ERPs) were recorded to both auditory and visual stimuli from the scalps of nine autistic males and nine normal controls (all Ss between 12 and 22 years of age) to examine the differences in information processing strategies. Ss were tested on three different tasks: an auditory missing stimulus paradigm, a visual color…