Infants five- and seven-months-old were sequentially shown three stimulus arrays of visual elements, only one of which was capable of producing subjective contours. An infant habituation control procedure was used to test infants' abilities to discriminate the arrays. (Author/RH)

Effects on spatial term comprehension in 200 6- to 11-year-old children as the result of transformations in the stimulus dimensions of six pictures containing the same three figures were explored using J. Piaget's concept of spatial perspective. (Author)

The effects of perceptual set and of "sequential visual noise" on the identification of briefly exposed pictures were examined in 5-year-olds, 8-year-olds, and adults. (Author/MP)

Accuracy of pattern copying was studied in male and female 10-year-olds. Contrary to expectations, independent of the stimulus size, males benefited from spatial response cues whereas females did not. (Author/DB)

Results suggest that when the internal element of a compound stimulus is a highly preferred or salient stimulus, young infants will process information about its characteristics. (Author/DB)

Results indicated that: (1) high information was ranked most important for drawing a stimulus inference; (2) low distinctiveness information was most important for drawing a person inference; and (3) low consistency information was most important for drawing a circumstance inference. (Author)

Relationships among tone height, melodic contour, tone chroma, and recognition of recently learned melodies were investigated. Results replicated previous studies using familiar folk songs, providing evidence that melodic contour, tone chroma, and tone height contribute to recognition of both highly familiar and recently learned melodies.…

A critical review of the literature indicates that overselective attention: (1) is not limited to autistic children, (2) may be only one of several developmental lags these children display, and (3) may or may not be strongly correlated with children's language abilities and general intellectual abilities. (Author)

Both the directions and the directions plus reinforcement groups increased subjects' time on the task during the experimental phases. When extrinsic reinforcement and directions were removed, they maintained intrinsically motivated behaviors at levels significantly above levels observed during the baseline phase and significantly higher than the…

The visible in dance encompasses two possible worlds: a world of "doingness" and a world of quality. Each of these worlds in turn engenders two possibilities: accomplishing, or making something happen, on the one hand; qualitative presence or qualitative flow on the other. (Author)

Research findings indicate that young children learn concepts better when presented with less stimulus between negative and positive behaviors and greater variation among positive behaviors. (CJ)

Results clearly demonstrated that the children in this investigation made significantly more and faster responses when the reinforcer presentation was varied as opposed to constant. (Author/DB)

Task specific attending behavior of a mentally retarded adult engaged in a chain-cutting task was substantially increased by using a differential reinforcement procedure with a feedback stimulus for appropriate visual orientation. (Author/DLS)

Suggests that in tasks requiring the spatial coding of visual information children's performance depends on the degree of congruence between alternative spatial reference axes. (Author/MP)