We investigated infants' sensitivity to spatiotemporal structure. In Experiment 1, circles appeared in a statistically defined spatial pattern. At test 11-month-olds, but not 8-month-olds, looked longer at a novel spatial sequence. Experiment 2 presented different color/shape stimuli, but only the location sequence was violated during test;…

The present study attempted to demonstrate that subjects do attend to and abstract complex contingencies between events in probabilistic, nondeterministic schedules. (Authors)

Three severely retarded children (8 and 16 years old) were taught to point to consonant/vowel/consonant nonsense labels depicted by geometric forms under both serial (in which training was in one item at a time) and concurrent (in which training was in three items at a time) training conditions. (Author)

The Assessment of Basic Learning Abilities (ABLA) test requires a tester to attempt to teach to a person, using standard prompting and reinforcement procedures, six tasks that are hierarchically ordered in difficulty. Performance on the test provides valuable information for teachers and rehabilitation workers to match the difficulty of training…

In a previous study, Parisse suggested that subject dislocations in French language (e.g. "la fille "elle" dort") could be considered as a marker of morphosyntactic development in children with normal language development. The present study aimed to develop this proposition and to confirm it with experimental data, more…

This paper presents a temporal sequence memory based on the circuit configuration of the dentate gyrus of the mammalian hippocampus. (Author)

Data indicate that the Visual-Sequential Memory subtest of the ITPA and the Knox Cube Test measure different aspects of visual-sequential memory ability. (KW)

Learning packages allow students to cook up their own educational recipes without having to stew about deadlines. (RA)

Cumulative teaching, in which it is made certain that a child acquires one competency before proceeding to another of the same type, is described in terms of assumptions, main ideas, and its application to phonics, vocabulary, and basic addition for learning disabled students. (CL)

The method of scoring is used to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters in White and Clark's (EJ 075 122) learning hierarchy validation model. From the proportion of the population possessing only the superordinate skill in a pair of hierarchical skills, and its variance, the hypothesis of inclusion is tested. (Author/CTM)