Three severely handicapped adolescents were trained, using a picture prompt package, to complete three complex vocational or daily living tasks. All students required many training sessions to learn the first training task, but generalized their use of the pictures across settings without additional training. They needed substantially reduced…

Four developmentally disordered, speech deficient children (11-16 years old), who were being taught sign language as an alternative to speech, were taught to use manual signs as mediators in a delayed auditory-picture matching-to-sample task. (Author/CL)

Two studies involving children (mean age of 10 years) and adults investigated the effects of visual stimulus onsets and offsets on the latency of saccades to peripheral targets. Results were interpreted as indicating that, while stimulus intake processes have a greater interference effect on children's eye movements, oculomotor processes are…

A span-of-apprehension task and a backward masking technique were combined to allow measurement of the apprehension span of a sample of 34 learning disabled and normal boys about 8 to 13 years old at various time intervals following stimulus presentation. (Author/SW)

Demonstrates that both male and female neonates habituate and dishabituate to repeated and novel speech sounds. Results of a head-turning sound-localization task with 24 full-term neonates showed two basic processes: spatial orientation to sounds and response decrement to repeated speech sounds followed by response increment to novel speech…

Examines the influence of abstract art on children's book illustration and considers the child's response. (HOD)

Results of a study with 10 moderately retarded adolescents on the salience of transverse compound stimuli (combinations of positive and negative cues) were interpreted as an instance of developmental changes in unlearned stimulus salience hierarchies. The low saliency of transverse compounds was suggested to be related to reading difficulties.…

A teaching unit is described which combines visual stimuli with language to teach hearing impaired students the concepts underlying idioms. Slides and posters portray the literal meaning while students are asked to discuss their figurative meaning. (CL)

This study investigated vowel discrimination in 8-week-old infants. Using a nonnutritive, high-amplitude sucking measure in a habituation-dishabituation paradigm. (Author/SB)

Attempts to provide a clear demonstration that selective attention to self can be determined by the degree to which feedback tends to provide positive or negative discrepancies. (Author/RK)

This paper discusses the role of digital technology within the cognitive revolution of the perception of images. It analyzes the traditional values placed on images as a source of cognition. These values are discussed in terms of the ethical and social issues raised by the use of digital image manipulation in so far as the digital era is falsely…

This study provides additional data on the validity of the MCPS when used with severely disturbed children. (Author)

An experiment was conducted comparing judgment of recency (JOR) for line drawings and printed words representing common objects. In a mixed design, groups of 15 Ss were tested using either pictures or words at either of two presentation rates. (Editor)

Examines the use of sound in the original novel and in the filmed version of "Madame Bovary," also showing how closely Flaubert's techniques parallel those of the cinema. (RB)

Indicates that the method of presenting visualized instruction determines the type of visualization most effective with different educational objectives, color is an important variable, and not all visuals are equally effective. (RB)