This study assessed whether redundant stimuli are beneficial in motor performance, and how redundant information is processed, using 11 male and 11 female undergraduate students. A minimum information tracking task was presented to subjects on a computer in seven conditions. Overall, evidence seems to point to enhanced performance when information…

A study is presented which supports the contention that planned exposure to a greater number of stimuli will affect achievement of seven-, eight-, and nine-year-olds. (MN)

Expresses concern over the apparent deprivation among young children of the important range of sensory experiences that are found in quiet places. Argues that classrooms have so much inviting play that time and space for quiet reflection are lacking. Provides specific "quiet" ideas and practices for use in child care settings. (SD)

A novel attentional capture effect is reported in which visual-verbal serial recall was disrupted if a single deviation in the interstimulus interval occurred within otherwise regularly presented task-irrelevant spoken items. The degree of disruption was the same whether the temporal deviant was embedded in a sequence made up of a repeating item…

The major purpose of this study was to examine bimodal coordination of featural stimuli in infancy. Specifically of interest was infant sensitivity to the auditory and visual combinations that characterize male and female stimulus configurations. A total of 27 male and 27 female subjects of 3, 6, and 9 months of age participated in the study.…

Discrepancy between angl head turn and loudspeaker location was measured on infants in auditory-alone and auditory-visual trials. Age and loudspeaker location had no effect on performance in auditory-visual trials. However, in auditory-alone trials, there were significant age differences. (PCB)

Seven-month-old infants looked at pairs of slides of two and three objects while listening to either two or three drum beats. Study data call into question the suggestion that the influence of auditory information on infants' attentiveness to a visually presented numerical event is mediated by cross-modal matching of numerical information.…

In a classification task, preschoolers matched a target stimulus with a conventional category, a visually similar item that cut across conventional categories, or an unrelated item. Items were presented in picture, verbal, and picture-verbal conditions. In all conditions, conventional classifications outnumbered visual ones, and this difference…

Paper is based on a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Case Western Reserve University. (WY)

Although a student may not be able to verbalize a concept, he may very well have a good grasp of it. Nevertheless, in order to achieve this understanding, he most likely was exposed to some type of verbalization. (CK)

Examined rate-based intersensory matching in infants by habituating them to concordant or discordant auditory-visual stimuli. Found a preference for the visual stimulus that moved at a novel velocity, indicating that the temporal attributes of the visual component dominated responsiveness. Found only limited evidence of intersensory matching. (WP)

In 2 experiments, 9- and 12-month-old infants were shown pictures of males and females with a female or male voice presented simultaneously. Found that infants spent more time looking at pictures of females presented with a female voice than at other stimuli pictures. (BC)