The purpose of this sequence of a working paper intended for inclusion in a curriculum manual to be published in the future, is to provide the child with concrete experience, opportunities to represent things symbolically, and to learn the nature of symbols and how to read them. Examining objects, acting them out, and experimenting with them, the…

The relation between type of label and perception of faces was assessed. Sixty-four second and sixth grade Ss were randomly assigned to four experimental conditions in which various kinds of labeling training were associated with four purple and green smiling and frowning faces. Ss then judged the similarity of pairs of the faces. Results revealed…

Listed are nearly 300 books, articles, and audiovisual materials relating to visual literacy. Listings for written materials include author, title, publisher, and date of publication. Audiovisual listings include title, media type, date of production, and distributor. (EMH)

Black-and-white or color versions of four types of illustrations (simple line, detailed line, photograph of model, photograph of specimen) of the heart were used to complement oral instruction in a study to determine which type of visualization would be most effective in facilitating the achievement of students of different IQ levels. (Author)

This study investigates the effects of background music in a dramatic television presentation on university students' perception and retention of the presentation's cognitive content. (Author)

A tachistoscopic recognition task was administered to 36 retarded readers and 36 normal readers aged 6.5 to 7.5 yr. The purpose was to determine whether the retarded readers' visual-perceptual deficit was a function of speed of exposure and/or difficulty of discriminating alternatives on response cards. (Editor)

The importance of awareness of the pictorial surface and point of observation was investigated in children and adults. The effect of station point was found to interact with pictorial surface and age, thus suggesting the development of a mechanism of compensation for the perspective distortion of oblique view. (JMB)

The role of mental age (MA) and visual-perceptual ability in number concept development was examined with 48 nonretarded and retarded children from regular school settings. (Author)

Human visual recognition on the basis of shape but regardless of size was investigated by reaction time methods. Results suggested two processes of size scaling: mental-image transformation and perceptual-scale transformation. Image transformation accounted for matching performance based on visual short-term memory, whereas scale transformation…

Attempts to determine if imagination could replace physical color and pattern in adaptation stimuli known to produce orientation-specific color aftereffects. (Editor/RK)

Traditionally reversal errors in reading and writing have carried serious implications in primary grade education of the need for special education intervention and diagnosis. (Author/MH)

Two-letter stimulus displays, differing in the magnitude of the horizontal spatial separation between the letters, were presented tachistoscopically to 10 retarded and 1 nonretarded adults. (Author/CL)

Reports research into the visual fixation of 3- to 11-week old infants as they observed adult faces. Reports a dramatic increase in fixations occurred between 5 and 7 weeks for all conditions. (SL)

A program was described whose essential aim was to see things at once both more acutely (structure) and more broadly (context), to develop accurate and alternative means for communicating one's particular visual awareness, and in so doing discover processes involved, making them part of one's consciousness and applying them to "daily" situations,…