Short-term changes in visual behavior observed in 80 infants (3-9 months) parallel changes observed across age by Piaget and fit well his assumption that the infant's increasingly sophisticated action patterns evolve by successive accomodations to encountered phenomenon. (WY)

Deaf subjects required about 9 dB greater speech-to-noise ratio for 75 percent correct detection of words than did normal-hearing subjects, suggesting that maximum communication effectiveness may occur for hearing impaired children only at higher speech-to-noise ratios than that required by normal-hearing persons. (Author/KW)

Assesses the current state of knowledge concerning children's perception and the processes of learning to read. Considers research studies and the reasons for their success or failure. (DR)

Reviews the Delacato approach based on neurological organization, the Kephart approach stressing motor and perceptual training, specific perceptual training, and drug treatment for reading disability. Includes a pro-reaction and a con-reaction paper. Bibliography. (WB)

Tests the hypotheses that persons who commit harmful acts do something altruistic after harm-doing because of guilt; and that persons who witness harm do something altruistic after witnessing harm to maintain their belief in a just world." (MB)

Examines 103 perceptions of finger drawings on the forehead and back of the head, or anterior and posterior body surfaces, with special regard to sex differences in perception. (MB)