We report four experiments designed to determine whether visual information affects judgments of acoustically-specified nonspeech events as well as speech events (the "McGurk effect"). Previous findings have shown only weak McGurk effects for nonspeech stimuli, whereas strong effects are found for consonants. We used click sounds that…

In this article, the authors investigate visual and tactile ASL-English interpreters' influences on interactive discourse through an interactional sociolinguistic analysis of videotaped, interpreted interactions. They examine the participation framework of each of the interactions to determine whether the interpreters' utterances influence the…

Behavioral and electrophysiological processing of sequential tones were investigated in reading delayed (RD) and non-reading delayed (NRD) children matched on intelligence and reading level. NRD children performed consistently better on sequencing of tonal patterns. Middle latency event-related potentials from the RD group indicated reduced…

This paper examines the portrayal of librarians in poetry written from 1958 to 1993 in order to find out whether technological and social changes which occurred during this period had any effect on the image of librarians. Content analysis was used in examining the 32 poems and the 36 librarians present in those poems. Adjectives and descriptions…

This field study profiles the roles of secondary school principals in Lebanon, focusing on four areas: (1) role-specific behaviors necessary for success; (2) the degrees of significance attached to each of the behaviors by principals, teachers, and students; (3) the extent to which such behaviors are actually found; and (4) the consequent picture…

A discussion of the importance of the relation between psychology and philosophy for the understanding of child development. The positive contribution of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological approach to developmental psychology are examined in the areas of perception, language acquisition, and the child's relations with others. (JMB)

A discussion of perception of television picture quality. Two methods of measuring quality in terms of cost of transmission are presented. (HB)

The ability to identify the emotional content of vocal expressions was examined for Canadian and Mexican boys, ages 6-11. The Mexican children performed better overall, although children from both countries did better with the Mexican speech samples. Performance was found to improve with age. (JMB)

The territory of the chief executive in higher education is here likened to the physical science "field of forces." (Author/MLF)

Author examined the art of Alberto Giacommetti and Max Ernst, recently shown at The Art Institute of Chicago, while presenting to us his interpretation of what occurs during the observation of art work. (RK)

Of the three aspects of moral development--the development of empathy, moral reasoning and related problem-solving strategies--we know least about empathy. Possible reasons for this are explored. (Editor)

There are four roles of the training and employee development function: learning specialist, administrator, program manager, and consultant. The duties and responsibilities and the specific abilities and knowledge needed for each role are specified in the Commission's report. (AG)

Presents two studies which investigated the relative importance of various features in the discrimination of faces. (SDH)