Considered the production of "messages" in television and how sign-vehicles are organized through codes. (Author/RK)

The present study is an attempt to explore the possible interaction between self concept and visual perception in relationship to reading disabilities. (Author)

The primary concern in this study has been to interpret the ways in which perception of a letter depends on properties of other letters present in the same display. (Author)

This study investigated the hypothesis that specific reading disability is caused by visual-spatial disorder. Poor and normal readers in the second and sixth grades were presented both verbal and nonverbal stimuli and asked to identify and/or reproduce them orally and graphically. Results are discussed. (CS)

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which verbal processes influence recognition memory for visual scenes in preschool children. Children were shown line drawings of 12 pairs of items and were asked to describe them. One week later, a recognition test was given in which ability to remember elaborated and unelaborated pictures…

Human neonates selectively fixated patterns with curved rather than straight contours when the outermost contours differed in this form variable and when quantitative variables were controlled. Data indicated the presence from birth of a discrimination ability basic to later form perception. (Author/ED)

Research supported in part by Public Health Service Fellowship No. 5-FI-MH-24, 454-02 (MTLH) from the National Institute of Mental Health.

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