To act and think, children and adults are continually required to ignore irrelevant visual information to focus on task-relevant items. As real-world visual information is organized into structures, we designed a feature visual search task containing 3-level hierarchical stimuli (i.e., local shapes that constituted intermediate shapes that formed…

Verbal self-instruction was employed in training impulsive first-grade children to perform visual discrimination matching tasks. Posttests, following the four training conditions, showed that while strategy training increased latency, self verbalization both increased latency and reduced errors. (Author/DEP)

The effects of daily training in visual memory and basal reader instruction were investigated. Training and tests on 295 first-graders indicated that visual memory training resulted in more growth in visual discrimination and higher levels of reading achievement than reading instruction alone. (SDH)