Mature'' judgments of causality appeared earlier for social situations (between ages 4 and 7) than for physical ones (between ages 7 and 11). (Author)

Compared to normal readers, the dyslexic children not only drew significantly more "neolithic faces" but also made more errors of spatial displacement (up/down or right/left) on parts of asymmetric figures, while among both groups there were similar percentages who made no errors in the global rotation of figures. (Author/SJL)

Spatial skills are known to vary widely among normal individuals. This project was designed to address whether these individual differences are differentially related to large-scale environmental learning from route (ground-level) and survey (aerial) perspectives. Participants learned two virtual environments (route and survey) with limited…

Students (N = 124) viewed 14 timed Web pages that distinguished 14 confusing word pairs. In a 2 x 2 factorial design, the authors gave all of the students matrices containing representational pictures for each pair of words, as well as examples of each word in use. One factor in the design was the absence or presence of rules of usage for each…

The Beery Test of Visual Motor Integration was utilized in a reliability study with elementary school children. The results indicate sufficient scorer reliability and stability over time to merit its use with young children. (Author)

A brief training procedure designed to improve elementary school children's performance on the Children's Embedded Figures Test resulted in significant improvement for girls but not for boys. (Author/JMB)

Study tests 45 four-month-old infants for color constancy using a familiarization, paired-comparison paradigm. Infants tested with a change in illuminant correctly recognized the familiar color under some conditions and failed to do so under others. (Author/RWB)

Reports on a study that tested the effects of cognitive style upon the short-term recall of abstract figures seen with different contextual backgrounds. Findings indicated that field dependent individuals can learn and transfer visual information. (CH)

Tests designed to measure conservation, visual memory, and static and anticipatory imagery were administered to 1st and 2nd grade children. Conservation and memory correlated significantly with IQ. The different mental processes may be involved in the development of anticipatory imagery and conservation. (CS)

Highly active second-grade boys made fewer correct detections in a 48-minute vigilance task than did their normal peers. Detection efficiency was inversely related to interval length, and this effect was more pronounced for the highly active group. (RC)

Concludes that constant errors of several degrees of visual angle may result if group-mean parameter values are used instead of individually determined parameter values. Because infants are relatively inaccurate in directing fixations toward a selected target, repeated calibration trials are required for collection of sufficient data on individual…

Background: The conclusion from a vast literature on literacy acquisition is that letter knowledge is one of the best predictors of literacy development. The question of the best way to teach children letter sounds has not, as yet, been answered satisfactorily. Aims: The aim of this study was the evaluation of a computer training program using…

Stroop dilution is the reduction of the Stroop effect in the presence of a neutral word. It has been attributed to competition for attention between the color word and neutral word, to competition between all stimuli in the visual field, and to perceptual interference. Five experiments tested these accounts. The critical manipulation was whether…