The relationship between visual neglect and the ability to judge the angular orientation of lines in patients with unilateral cerebrovascular lesions was studied with 75 patients with right hemisphere lesions and 39 with left hemisphere lesions. Results are discussed in relation to general cognitive factors and perceptual and spatial abilities.…

Three experiments examined whether limitations in perceptual ability by 24 individuals with mental retardation extended to learning perceptual categories based on elements of actions. Individuals with mental retardation had difficulty identifying some actions, slower decision times for activity identification, and could not identify the actor's…

Used a modified visual-fixation-based auditory-preference procedure to test preferences for infant-directed singing versus adult-directed singing in 15 two-day-old hearing infants of deaf parents. Subjects heard a Japanese and an English play song. Found that infants prefer infant-directed singing over adult-directed singing and that the…

Used event-related potentials to determine whether infants show differences in spatial and temporal characteristics of brain activation during face and object recognition. Found that infants' experience with specific examples within categories and their general category knowledge influenced the neural correlates of visual processing. (Author/KB)

Investigated the effects of of distance on perception of unimodal visual speech and congruent and incongruent forms of the syllables /ba/, /bi/, /ga/, and /gi/. Identification of unimodal visual speech was unaffected by increasing distance to 10m, but was impaired at 20 and 30m. (Author/VWL)

Examines the specific problems of roof support in coal mines to construct a theoretical framework that describes how texts represent information that is embodied, sensory, and uncertain. Raises ethical questions about (1) textbook notions of instructions as systematic procedures designed to produce predictable outcomes; (2) limits of particular…

Presents a four-part theoretical treatment of the planning of speech movements that favors models in which the only invariant targets are regions in auditory perceptual space over models that posit invariant construction targets. Computer simulations illustrate the models. (SLD)

This paper describes a new "class" of auditory tests designed to evaluated the ability of young children to detect commonly encountered sounds; localize sound sources; and understand speech in noise. The tests appear to be sensitive to the effects of auditory pathology and to the normal development of auditory processing skills. (DB)

Ten children (ages 12-16) with specific language impairments (SLI) and controls matched for chronological or language age were tested with measures of complex sound localization involving the precedence effect phenomenon. SLI children exhibited tracking skills similar to language-age matched controls, indicating impairment in their ability to use…

Studied the structure of color cures that allows the express recognition of scene gists in 3 experiments involving 60 college students. Taken together, results suggest that colored blobs at a coarse spatial scale concur with luminance cues to form the relevant spatial layout that mediates express scene recognition. (SLD)

Explains that motor oils can be reused and recycled. Educates students about environmental hazards and oil management and includes classroom activities. Addresses the National Science Education Standards. (YDS)

The question of innateness, which naturally arises in respect of the method of category construction proposed by vantage theory, is notoriously difficult. Discusses some of the problems inherent in this type of issue, along with attendant assumptions. Then, turns to what might constitute possible grounding for vantage theory. (Author/VWL)

Presents four successive perspectives on the senses. The first is on objectivism, the second is a view from sensory psychology, the third on phenomenology, and the fourth is that of sensory anthropology. (Author/VWL)

Tested 67 undergraduates on a new auditory inspection time task based on the ability to locate the left or right position of a stereophonic source and on a version of Raven's Progressive Matrices (Page and Crawford, unpublished). The new task appears to be accessible to a wider range of subjects than successive frequency discrimination tasks. (SLD)

In an era of calls for education that achieves mathematical power for all students, it is crucial to examine the role of the senses and the use of perception in mathematics education. Discusses the roles of stench, cacophony, technology, and mediating processes in the mathematics classrooms. Contains 34 references. (ASK)