Attempts to differentiate the serial habituation hypothesis from the regression to the mean hypothesis as explanations for the reduction of visual fixations in the form perception of four-month-old infants. Results support a regression to the mean interpretation of the data. (JMB)

The thesis of this article is that, in the drawings of very young children, line is produced as a path before it is produced as a boundary. An explanation for this progression is proposed. (Author/JMB)

Explains that motivated behavior is driven by individuals' perceptions and interpretations of external events rather than the events themselves. Suggests a human performance intervention strategy based on a model of motivation that focuses on situation-specific perceptions of value, challenge, and control. (LRW)

In three studies of infants' ability to perceive partially occluded objects with specific appearances, a screen alternately uncovered and covered either a connected or interrupted rectangle. Pattern of infants' looking times suggests that they perceive the unity of the partially occluded object by 6.5 months but did not perceive the form of the…

Assessed infants' and adults' adjustment of hand orientation before grasping objects. Found that infants modified their hand orientation to match the long axis of an object, did not make anticipatory hand adjustments before reaching through a narrow aperture to grasp an object, and oriented their hand to be parallel with the handle of an object.…

Explores a range of vocal and visual practices deployed by Japanese speakers during the course of a word search in naturally occurring conversation and shows how such embodied practices provide publicly available resources for recipients to organize their relevant participation in the ongoing word search. (Author/VWL)

Discusses access to digitized images in information retrieval and cognitive engagement with viewed images. Describes an investigation that looked at how users view images in relation to how they can be described, or categorized, and in what manner they match other images in the same collection. (Author/LRW)

Presents interviews with six deans of universities in Taiwan. Explores history, job description, and position philosophy. Concludes the role of dean seems to be that of both administrator and educator who cares for students. (ABL)

Infants of 8-28 weeks were tested to determine the smallest sound shift off midline and along the horizontal axis that the infants could reliably discriminate. Results indicated localization acuity increased with age. Video records revealed numerous auditory orienting behaviors with methodological implications. (RH)

Assessed 40 women's responses to young infants' cries. Mothers and nonmothers were similar in basic features of caregiving behaviors. Although the sound of infant cries may inform caregivers about distress level, caregiving behaviors appear to be determined by additional factors. (RH)

First, newborns' preferential looking between pairs of stimuli which varied in real size and viewing distance was solely determined by retinal size. Second, newborns desensitized to changes in distance and retinal size strongly preferred an object of a different size to the familiar one. (RH)

In two classes of 8 year olds and 2 classes of 11 year olds, each child ranked all members of his or her class in terms of degree to which classmate was strong and liked. Subjects consistently overestimated their place in the hierarchy in relation to peers' perceptions. Bias in perceptions of strength extended to peer group. (RH)

Infants' detection of temporal increments to silent intervals "between" groups of tones was compared with their detection of comparable silent increments "within" groups of tones. Results indicated infants discriminated temporally altered sequences from standard only when increments occurred within group. Concludes perceptual…

A generation ago the model for an expanded role for nurses included comprehensive health assessment through appropriate and systematic data collection. Today the scope of nursing practice has made aspects of that model obsolete and it is time to redefine that role to reflect nursing education and practice in the 1980s. (JOW)