Studies have suggested that the presence of individual differences in children's ability to detect social contingencies may be related to their behavioral characteristics, as a result of cumulative transactions with their physical and social environments. This study sought to identify behavioral characteristics associated with children's ability…

This guide is designed to help college teachers plan their undergraduate courses and deliver high-quality instruction. It covers course planning, learning and memory, the essentials of teaching, and professional and ethical issues. The chapters are: (1) "Course Planning"; (2) "Understanding Attention and Working Memory"; (3) "Learning and…

The BrainLink project offers educational materials focusing on current neuroscience issues with the goal of promoting a deeper understanding of how the nervous system works and why the brain makes each individual special while conveying the excitement of "doing science" among upper elementary and middle school students. Project materials engage…

Seven-month-old infants require redundant information such as temporal synchrony to learn arbitrary syllable-object relations. Infants learned the relations between spoken syllables, /a/ and /i/, and two moving objects only when temporal synchrony was present during habituation. Two experiments examined infants' memory for these relations. In…

This paper, two of four on literature and the young child, focuses on two ways the simple act of a parent reading to a child during the early years helps the child grow into a successful reader. The two ways are: reading to the young child helps him or her build a rich vocabulary which in turn will help strengthen his or her memory skills; and…

This theme issue of the journal "Exploring" covers the topic of "memories" and describes an exhibition at San Francisco's Exploratorium that ran from May 22, 1998 through January 1999 and that contained over 40 hands-on exhibits, demonstrations, artworks, images, sounds, smells, and tastes that demonstrated and depicted the biological,…

A series of 7 experiments was conducted to test whether the nature of prior encoding determines performance on tasks which require Ss to retrieve information from long-term storage. (Editor)

Second grade Ss and college students were tested under three conditions of the temporal relationship of feedback and stimulus information. (Editor)

Author attempted to relate research in the area of musical studies with Leon Kamin's research with animals. The experiment with human subjects set out to measure the presentation of auditory stimuli without punishment as an indication of memorization processes. (RK)

An experiment is reported in which attention to one channel of a dichotic presentation was controlled by requiring S to memorize the list of verbal items presented over that channel. (Author)

Fifty-seven learning disabled or emotionally disturbed students, 8- to 12-years-old, IQ, 80-129, were given a visual and an auditory memory test to obtain reliability data on the two tests, and to determine the relationship of the tests to the children's reading and listening behavior. (MC)

Research based on author's master thesis and supported by funds from the National Science Foundation. (DS)

Two experiments were performed to investigate the effects of noise-induced arousal on immediate recall of visually presented paired-associate adjectives. (Authors)

Results of three experiments provided no substantial evidence of selective encoding. (Authors/MB)

Seventeen reading readiness variables appraising a variety of perceptual, learning, cognitive, memory, and language abilities were evaluated as predictors of reading achievement for 94 educable mentally retarded and 78 nonretarded children. (Author)