Study tests 45 four-month-old infants for color constancy using a familiarization, paired-comparison paradigm. Infants tested with a change in illuminant correctly recognized the familiar color under some conditions and failed to do so under others. (Author/RWB)

Reports on a study that tested the effects of cognitive style upon the short-term recall of abstract figures seen with different contextual backgrounds. Findings indicated that field dependent individuals can learn and transfer visual information. (CH)

Tests designed to measure conservation, visual memory, and static and anticipatory imagery were administered to 1st and 2nd grade children. Conservation and memory correlated significantly with IQ. The different mental processes may be involved in the development of anticipatory imagery and conservation. (CS)

Highly active second-grade boys made fewer correct detections in a 48-minute vigilance task than did their normal peers. Detection efficiency was inversely related to interval length, and this effect was more pronounced for the highly active group. (RC)

Concludes that constant errors of several degrees of visual angle may result if group-mean parameter values are used instead of individually determined parameter values. Because infants are relatively inaccurate in directing fixations toward a selected target, repeated calibration trials are required for collection of sufficient data on individual…

A description of a media experiment in which the data indicate that film stimuli alone appears to be the significant variable. (Author/HB)

A discussion of visual field, foveal and peripheral vision, eye fixations, recognition and recall of pictures, memory for meaning of pictures, and the relation between speed of presentation and memory. (Editor)

In two experiments, volunteer subjects were asked to look at words and pictures, with or without an interference task. The results are interpreted to support a theory of a separate but not totally independent pictorial memory system. (Editor)

These English Language Proficiency Test Pictures were prepared for the Curriculum Improvement Program in English Language Skills for Schools of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. For a description of the Program and other tests used in the Program, see AL 002 134. (AMM)

The Test of Concepts in the Direct Instructional System for Teaching and Remediation (DISTAR) is a twenty item pictorial identification which is administered orally and asks the kindergarten child to identify familiar objects, superlatives, status of being, verbs, verb tense, multiple attributes, geometric figures, colors, and spatial…

Ten test films were developed to measure aspects of children's visual perception which are difficult to assess through conventional paper and pencil tests. The film medium was selected because it allows the presentation of temporal, as well as spacial, aspects of the stimuli. Four areas of perceptual performance covered in the films are: (1)…

Stabilization of the retinal image of the boundary between a pair of red/green or yellow/blue stripes, but not their outer edges, results in the entire region being perceived simultaneously as both red/green or yellow/blue. This suggests that the percepts of reddish-green/yellowish-blue apparently are possible in corticocortical color vision…

Three experiments assessing the effects of nonbizarre versus bizarre pictorial elaboration on the paired-associate retention of noun pairs were conducted with kindergarten and second-grade children. Both pictorial elaborations were found to facilitate performance relative to a standard presentation condition and forgetting of pairs was equivalent.…

A linear regression approach to determining the number of factors in factor analytic solutions is presented. It provides objectivity while producing the same results as the visual scree test. Experience with the method to date indicates that the results are consistent with visual solutions. (SLD)