The study attempted to determine whether deaf individuals could more accurately identify facial expressions than normal individuals. The 30 adult (mean age: 18 years) deaf subjects were asked to identify emotional states of photographed actors. Results generally indicated that deaf individuals are neither better nor worse at identifying emotional…

This study reviews historical thinking about visual literacy, addresses the issue of setting visual literacy's parameters, and provides a philosophy to link individual theories in this multidisciplinary movement. The report examines the roots of the visual literacy movement and the seminal literature in the field. It includes a categorizing of…

A study investigated the importance of brief contemplation as a factor in the accuracy of judgments about other people, based on their nonverbal appearance. The following questions were addressed: (1) Are observers who are given time to contemplate the significance of nonverbal cues more accurate in their perceptual judgments than observers who…

Provides directions for construction of a working model of the eye and specifies some experiments using this model. (PEB)

Spanish speaking children who spell better than they read often have a visual perception problem. (DB)

Argues that kinesthetic activities should be focused in three areas of concern: word recognition, left to right progression, and coordination and visual discrimination. (RB)

Discussed television programming and its value for human experience as well as providing the art educator with methods for utilizing game shows and other participation type shows for students' particular interests. (RK)

Article discussed the experience women have suffered in coping with a male oriented world and described the difference in male/female visual perception with specific examples of artistic achievement. (RK)

Perceptual difficulties may be related to a lack of experience with visual materials and insufficient experience with the use of verbal mediation in solving nonverbal tasks. (RB)

This study of the effects of practice on children's perceptual judgments investigates the validity of the distinctive features hypothesis and the schemata hypothesis by comparing performance on discrimination tasks using familiar stimuli (letters of the alphabet) with a variety of transformations held constant over four massed practice conditions.…

The ability of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children to infer the position of an object in a room from information contained on a map was assessed under five conditions: (1) map aligned inside the room (the pretest); (2) map aligned outside the room; (3) map rotated 180 degrees inside the room; (4) map rotated 180 degrees outside the room; (5) map held…

The extent to which visual perceptual maturity contributes to intellectual efficiency, as measured by the ability to conserve, was investigated in 30 educable retarded children (mean CA 12 years) and 60 nonretarded children (30 matched for the retardates' CA and 30 matched for the retardates' MA). (CL)