Several theoretical issues are reviewed which address the pictorial vs. verbal characteristics of media and provide a beginning framework for understanding how these influence learning. (STS)

Eye movement analysis should provide a basis for differentiation of humans in terms of developed preference for certain kinds of visual presentations over other kinds. A study was conducted to examine this position. A total of 40 children from grades 8 through 12 participated as subjects. Each subject was presented with a synchronous audio-visual…

Attempts to define how the amount of realistic detail in a visualization affects subjects' achievement. (KS)

Reviews research concerning (1) the superiority of one modality over another, (2) the simultaneous use of different modalities, and (3) modality studies specifically focused on reading. Includes a pro-reaction and a con-reaction paper. Bibliography. (WB)

SEVERAL CONCLUSIONS FROM RESEARCH ON VISUALS ARE DISCUSSED. THE PARTICULAR STUDIES ON WHICH THESE CONCLUSIONS ARE BASED ARE TWO MULTIVARIATE EXPERIMENTS WHICH USED PROGRAMED SCIENCE DEMONSTRATIONS PRESENTED OVER TELEVISION AND PROGRAMED VERBAL MATERIALS ON THE SAME SCIENCE PRINCIPLES BUT PRESENTED IN SELF-PACED BOOKLETS. THE LEVEL OF THE…

Studies involving 30 learning-disabled elementary students support the contention that reading comprehension difficulties among learning-disabled children are partly due to inefficient memorization strategies, and demonstrate the efficacy of practical, cost-effective mnemonic training procedures which significantly increase reading comprehension…

Based on the theory that the human left brain hemisphere processes verbal-sequential data and that the right hemisphere processes visual-spatial data, this article presents a teaching strategy for stimulating both hemispheres. It also describes the study that contributed to this strategy. (DS)

Examines the hypothesis that some people are verbal learners and some people are visual learners. Presented a battery of 14 cognitive measures related to the visualizer-verbalizer dimension to 95 college students and then conducted correlational and factor analyses. Results have implications for how to conceptualize and measure individual…

Those who focus on the study of visual information continue to search for effective ways to conceptualize that inquiry. However, many visual examples are better categorized as visual/verbal collaboration, complicating analysis. When analysis is based on the assumption that visual and verbal modalities perform in similar ways, important…

Research on the role of visual memory and serial recall in dyslexia is reviewed. Findings touch on feature theory, which proposes that information is held in the form of "features," and that students for example learn to discriminate letters by marking certain identifiable aspects. Other studies are described which focus on speed of processing…

Thirty children with partial sight and 30 children with unimpaired sight (all 8- to 12-years old) received either verbal-mediation or visual-mediation training regimes. The verbal mediation training was superior to visual mediation training on a problem-solving task for both children with partial sight and children without visual impairments.…

Studies the effects of modeling and reversibility cues in teaching 4-year-olds to conserve length. Results are discussed in terms of a social learning viewpoint of cognitive development. (ED)

This reports the effects of the number of relevant stimulus dimensions and figural versus verbal stimuli on the concept learning ability of college students. Results force a consideration of mediational variables in explaining this form of cognitive learning. A set of verbal materials analogous to a set of dimensionalized figural materials was…

The author presents findings from brain hemisphere research indicating a complex dual memory process which separately and simultaneously processes input through visual and verbal encoding strategies. He draws implications from this for educational goals, instructional methods, and student evaluation procedures. (SJL)