TEN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSES RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF SPEECH PRODUCTION AND PERCEPTION WERE REPORTED. THE ANALYSES WERE CONCERNED WITH THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF STIMULI AND REINFORCEMENTS ON SPEECH PRODUCTION AND THE DISCRIMINATORY PERCEPTION OF SPEECH. INITIAL SPECIFICATIONS WERE INCLUDED FOR A SPEECH AUTOINSTRUCTION DEVICE TO BE USED FOR…

Communication analysis is a tool for perceptual assessment of existing or projected information complexes, i.e., an established reality perceived by one or many humans. An information complex could be of a physical nature, such as a building, landscape, city street; or of a pure informational nature, such as a film, television program,…

Morse code signals were presented dichotically to Morse code operators and to naive subjects with no knowledge of Morse code. The operators showed right ear superiority, indicating left hemisphere dominance for the perception of dichotically presented Morse code letters. Naive subjects showed the same right ear superiority when presented with a…

The study focuses on the possibility that the tendency of academic underachievers to respond in terms of all inclusive language is indicative of their incapacity to discriminate the uniquely meaningful aspects of their environment. The authors hypothesize that academic achievers would differ significantly from academic underachievers in their…

The main concern of this study--what is the image of the artist as it is projected by entertainment films--raises four subsidiary questions. The first is whether that image varies from one film to another and, if so, how and to what extent. Secondly, presuming such variations, are they related to the time period in which the films were produced?…

Forty-one abstracts with descriptive terms are presented which deal with various aspects of reading methods and problems including discussions of dyslexia, sensory impairment, teaching techniques, and physiological considerations. An author and subject index, user information, and information on purchasing either the individual documents or the…

The annotated bibliography contains approximately 71 listings of instructional materials for Head Start teachers serving handicapped children. Teachers using the bibliography are advised to think first in terms of instructional requirements rather than the handicapping condition of the child. Materials are listed in terms of the following…

Basic principles in body movement, drama, and music therapy for the emotionally disturbed are explored in this text. Various approaches to therapy are illustrated by accounts of individuals and groups with whom the author has worked. A list of musical pieces, with notes on possible application in therapy, is also included. The book is designed to…

The development of person perception or understanding of self and others is the theme of this psychology textbook. An extensive review of research on impression formation is followed by a thorough description of a study of person perception in children. Variables such as age, sex, and intelligence are studied in terms of their relationship to the…

One hundred and sixty-six second graders were administered the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) and a visual and auditory memory test. Intraindividual discrepancies between a child's performance on comparable visual and auditory measures served to identify him as a visual or an auditory learner. Significantly more 5-year-old…

Intended for teachers, the book describes the problem of having learning disabled children in the regular primary grade classroom, offers diagnostic guidelines, and suggests activities to strengthen visual skills, auditory skills, motor skills, body image, and laterality and directionality. The learning problem is seen to consist of three sets of…

Contributions in the first section of this volume are: "Learning to Identify Toy Block Structures" by Patrick Winston; "Beyond the Yellow-Volkswagen Detector and the Grandmother Cell: A General Strategy for the Exploration of Operations in Human Pattern Recognition" by Naomi Weisstein; "Visual Recognition in a Theory of Information Processing" by…

The project's purpose was to determine whether attention to the task during testing was a confounding variable in measures of visual perception ability. Samples of 30 perceptually handicapped (PH) and 30 normal subjects (N) were randomly selected from children so classified on the Frostig DTVP, providing they had IQ scores between 85 and 115 on…

The generation of dynamic mental imagery is known to facilitate paired associate (PA) learning in older subjects. Wolff and Levin (in press) have reported that children who were apparently too young to generate mental imagery of this kind did benefit from self-generated motoric interactions involving pairs of toys. Since the result was obtained…

In a forced-choice recognition task children's memory for some dimensions of pictured events was investigated. Seventy-two children (12 boys and 12 girls each in kindergarten, second, and fourth grades) were shown pictures of simple events. In four response conditions, distractors differed from stimulus pictures in (1) who the participants were,…