This experiment tested conjectures concerning the effects of learners' attending preferences on the establishment of auditory-visual intersensory associations in a bisensory paired associate task. Attending patterns were identified through the use of a bisensory diget-span task. On the basis of fifth and sixth grade subjects' performance during…

Age and instructional differences in the representation of pictorial information were investigated in a recognition memory task. A total of 56 nursery school and 40 college-age subjects observed pictures under name labeling, color labeling, imaging, and no label instructions. Subjects were then tested for retention of object identity and color…

A pilot study of the pictorial communication in the prose materials was made among students coming from two school settings. The first group was composed of sixth and seventh grade students from average to below average socioeconomic neighborhoods in a large urban industrial community and the second, fifth and sixth grade students from a small,…

A digital simulation of a model for the processing of visual images is derived from known aspects of the human visual system. The fundamental principle of computation suggested by a biological model is a transformation that distributes information contained in an input stimulus everywhere in a transform domain. Each sensory input contributes under…

The effectiveness of an automated free-play television game as a means for measuring normal and language impaired children's preferential selection of closely regulated sound values was studied. The subjects were 24 preschool children (18 with normal language function and 6 with language disabilities) from four through six years of age. The…

The author contends that man as a receiver of information is largely manipulated by the information sources. He proposes a system of substantive rhetoric, whereby we could perceive how past assumptive reasoning processes have allowed us to be manipulated and how these processes have originated outside rather than within ourselves. The author…

The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the inclusion of visual tracking exercise in a remedial reading program would result in significant higher reading achievement scores when compared to a conventional remedial reading program. Seventy-five sixth-grade students, reading a year or more below grade level and potential, made…

This report describes the efforts of the Office of Research and Extension of the North Carolina State University (NCSU) School of Education to develop vocal computer-assisted instruction (CAI) tutorials for blind junior college students, the rationale behind those efforts, the costs and means of funding for the project, and suggested ways in which…

This paper explores the effects of infant predominant state of arousal upon very early mother-infant interaction, through observation of a group of 20 healthy 3-day-old nursery roommates and their mothers during hospital feeding sessions. In an experimental procedure involving a modified time-sampling technique, two observers simultaneously…

Subjects were 65 six-, eight-, ten-, and twelve-year olds from after-school day care programs. The subjects were unobtrusively observed in free play situations involving peers and the duration of their interactions in six types of peer groups of varying size were recorded. Subjects were also administered a picture card test, composed of 20 sets of…

Consistent learning gains are associated with the use of pictures when experiments adhere to five ground rules: (1) prose passages are presented orally; (2) the subjects are children; (3) the passages are fictional narratives; (4) the pictures overlap the story content; and (5) learning is demonstrated by factual recall. (Author)

The stimuli in two artificial letter learning experiments varied in print size and dimensionality. Preschool children made the least errors when the stimuli were three dimensional, large print, and the children were directed to manipulate the letters. Replication with kindergarten children failed to show any differences among the treatments.…

A discussion of the merits of using pictures, particularly authentic ones, as a component of the evaluation process in foreign language classes. Three reasons are given: pictures provide a setting for testing communication skills; they give a sociocultural context; their use can be student-centered. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

A short analysis of four methods of instruction in writing, particularly the transition from the aural-oral to the writing stage. The question is raised as to the usefulness of pictures. They might be better used as a motivational aid than as an instructional tool. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Reviewed is the Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development, a test intended to provide speech and language pathologists information on early communicative behaviors. (BD)