Gestures are a common, integral part of communication. Here, we investigate the roles of gesture and speech in explanations, both for communicators and recipients. Communicators explained how to assemble a simple object, using either speech with gestures or gestures alone. Gestures used for explaining included pointing and exhibiting to indicate…

Sensory overload and split attention result in reduced learning when instructors read slides with bullet points and complex graphs during a lecture. Conversely, slides containing relevant visual elements, when accompanied by instructor narration, use both the visual and verbal channels of a student's working memory, thus improving the chances of…

This bibliography lists research articles on selected pictorial research appearing in the 1974-76 volumes of about 50 journals in psychology, educational psychology, and communications. Most articles report research in which pictorial materials were used as experimental stimuli. Some research using only verbal material and some on mental imagery…

Approximately 150 references divided into 20 categories such as Cognition, Computers, and Curriculum. (LS)

High functioning autistic individuals (N=16) were compared with age-matched normal control subjects on a visual recognition matching task. Autistic subjects performed particularly poorly on meaningless material, but were able to utilize meaning to aid their visual memory. Results did not support a simple parallel between autism and mediotemporal…

This paper focuses on an important innovative development in new generation corporate university management. It addresses the thematic area of visual learning that is captured in the term "The Art of Minds-eye Management". It reflects upon experiences with groups of managers in enhancing perceptive competencies using visual awareness learning…

This article reports on the incorporation of visual material as a tool for learning sociology and discusses a poster assignment introduced as a means of assessment in an academic context committed to innovative learning strategies and to teaching and learning enhancement. The article draws on an evaluation of using the poster assignment to assess…

The basic problem in learning the English language is that it is a visual, not phonetic, language. Because they have not learned many of the basic visual abilities, many children do not have an adequate skill of visualization. The sequence of visual development includes: general movement patterns of action, special movement patterns of action, eye…

Visual education is a field that has tremendous potential which it still has not begun to realize. (Author)

Results of this investigation involving 50 deaf and 50 hearing students (14-18 years old) indicate extensive use of visual matching test-taking strategies by deaf subjects but not by hearing subjects. The extent of strategy use was not related to deaf subjects' overall performance on the lookback test. (Author/CL)

Visual short-term memory depends upon an ordered two-dimensional array of locations for its existence, whereas associative memory relies on associations between character representatives. (CK)

Article based on speech given before First Annual National Conference on Visual Literacy (Rochester, New York, March, 1969).