The findings of this study indicated that induced imagery facilitated correct shape reproduction in 8-year-olds better than induced verbalization. (JMB)

Describes a study using heart rate as an index of autonomic arousal to measure the effects on television viewers of depicting the consequences of violence, violence with no consequence, and nonviolence. Supports the conclusion that specific content manipulations of aggressive stimuli affect levels of arousal. (JMF)

The spans of apprehension (the amount of information processed simultaneously from a brief visual display) of 19 hyperactive and 19 normal boys (6-10 years old) were compared with a forced-choice letter-recognition task developed by W. Estes. (Author/CL)

Results showed that 2- and 3-dimensional forms affected 4- and 8-week-old infant visual behavior differently. (Author/JMB)

Two independent studies were conducted to examine the expectancy behavior of unselected hypnotic, task-motivated, and control-imagination subjects on a slide task requiring response to ambiguous visual information. Results showed that hypnotic subjects consistently demonstrated expectancy behavior, whereas nonhypnotic subjects did not. (Editor/RK)

A serial recognition task was used to compare performance of two age groups of learning disabled children (mean chronological ages 8.1 and 10.6) with 2- and 3-dimensional representations of nonlabeled 8-point random shapes. (Author/JMB)

Two experiments explored whether stimulus familiarity influences prerecognition processing to generate differences in the apparent duration of tachistoscopic flashes. Subjects were 4- and 5-year-old children and adults. (MS)

The purpose of this research was (a) to determine whether or not an emotional response, as measured by palmar skin conductance, does accompany a critical item, and (b) if it does, to investigate its relationship to the deficit in recognition memory. (Author/RK)

Two studies: (1) assessed the infant's ability to perceive differences between two-dimensional and three-dimensional stimuli; and (2) tested the infants' ability to transfer responses across dimensions. (Author/SB)

Examined length of fixation time responses of neonates to pairs of red, blue, and green acetate stimuli. (Author)

Among 40 reading disabled volunteers (ages 9-74), subjects with high scotopic sensitivity demonstrated significantly better performance on visual processing tasks when they used colored overlays which maximized visual efficiency, compared with task performance under conditions using overlays of a random color or no color. (JW)

Two different methods which minimize achromatic cues were used to test the ability of one-month-olds to discriminate gray from broadband blue. Test data imply an improvement between birth and one month of age in the discrimination of gray from broadband blue. Possible physiological changes underlying this improvement are discussed. (Author/RWB)

The theory proposed (recognition-by-components) hypothesizes the perceptual recognition of objects to be a process in which the image of the input is segmented at regions of deep concavity into an arrangement of simple geometric components. Experiments on the perception of briefly presented pictures support the theory. (Author/LMO)