Infants expressed more joy and looked longer at their mothers during a joy condition, and they showed more sadness, anger, and gaze aversion during a sadness condition. They engaged in more play behavior in the joy condition than in the sadness condition. Several significant relations between infants' gaze behavior, emotion expressions, and play…

Localization acuity was examined by determining the smallest sound shift off midline and along the horizontal axis that infants 6-18 months could reliably discriminate. As their age increased, infants demonstrated a finer partitioning of auditory space along the horizontal axis. (PCB)

Reports on three experiments that assessed the attentional responses of 4-month-old infants to frequency-modulated sweeps corresponding to the frequency range of adult-to-infant and adult-to-adult intonational patterns. (HOD)

Crossmodal transfer of stimulus control procedures was used to establish reliable responding to an auditory cue in three severely multiply handicapped students who had previously failed to demonstrate reliable responses to stimuli presented in the auditory mode. As a result, all three students were able to participate in formal audiometric…

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It has been shown that previously presented material, if auditory, is remembered better than visual. The present study investigated the role of modalities in a foreign language context, hypothesizing that visual modality is superior to that of an auditory one with regard to a text-based recognition test. Thirty-six intermediate male EFL students…

Nine-year-old students were given one presentation of a list of nouns and then performed both recall and recognition tasks. Visual presentation facilitated recall. (ST)

Do prior hedonic and excitational variations have influence on the appreciation of subsequently presented music? Implications for the manipulation of response to music and to other affect-producing communications through variations in prior stimulation are discussed. (Author/KM)

Three investigations are reported which indicate that infants between 4 and 17 weeks of age are able to detect some differences in sounds upon which phonemic contrasts are based. (Authors)

Indicates that a feeling of control over the environment affects the subject's response to aversive stimuli. This finding helps to reconcile those of other experimenters in the area. (RW)