Examined length of fixation time responses of neonates to pairs of red, blue, and green acetate stimuli. (Author)

Among 40 reading disabled volunteers (ages 9-74), subjects with high scotopic sensitivity demonstrated significantly better performance on visual processing tasks when they used colored overlays which maximized visual efficiency, compared with task performance under conditions using overlays of a random color or no color. (JW)

Two different methods which minimize achromatic cues were used to test the ability of one-month-olds to discriminate gray from broadband blue. Test data imply an improvement between birth and one month of age in the discrimination of gray from broadband blue. Possible physiological changes underlying this improvement are discussed. (Author/RWB)

The theory proposed (recognition-by-components) hypothesizes the perceptual recognition of objects to be a process in which the image of the input is segmented at regions of deep concavity into an arrangement of simple geometric components. Experiments on the perception of briefly presented pictures support the theory. (Author/LMO)

"Grandfather Moose" rhymes, written to follow the Mother Goose tradition, are short, appealing, easy-to-memorize sign language nursery rhymes which employ visual poetic devices such as similar signs and transitional flow of movement. (CB)

Confirms that both kindergarten and third-grade children communicate more accurately about familiar referents than about novel referents in a referential task. (PD)

Summarizes results from a series of psychological experiments about how people process information from television and discusses the results in relation to six issues, including size of stimulus units and complexity of television stimuli. (DF)

Studies 45 low-medical-risk preterm infants and 23 healthy term neonates, revealing that preterms are more wakeful but not more visually responsive than full-term infants. Intrameasure correlations suggest that the organization of wakefulness and visual responsiveness is different in full-term neonates and in preterms at expected date of birth.…

Finds that seven-month-old infants are sensitive to pictorial interposition whereas five-month-old infants are not. Suggests that sensitivity to pictorial depth information first appears between five and seven months of age. (Author)

Thirty-two three-month-old infants participated in two experiments showing color videotapes of facial stimuli in a paired comparison format. Suggests that contrast in effect of eye contact availability and rather subtle stimulus motion (blinking) implies that three-month-old infants are comparatively insensitive to being the object of another's…

Three studies were designed to examine infants' bisensory responsiveness to temporally modulated stimulation by varying frequency while keeping intensity constant, by varying both frequency and intensity together, and by varying intensity while keeping temporal frequency constant. Findings indicate that sound influences visual preferences via…

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)

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

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)