Examined visual search for compound patterns in 6-, 8-, 10-, and 22-year-olds. Found large improvements with age in search rate for long-range targets; search rate for short-range targets was fairly constant across age. This pattern held regardless of ease of perceptual access to target, supporting the hypothesis of different processes involved at…

Investigated 4- and 7-month-olds' perception of transparency, using computer-generated achromatic or color displays depicting a semitransparent box occluding the center of a rod. Found that 4-month-olds indicated perception of transparency in color but not in achromatic displays. Seven-month-olds showed some evidence of transparency perception in…

Inexperienced trade apprentices were presented with text in a visual-only manner and in both auditory and visual forms. Results show that the diagram-only presentation was the least intelligible, but after two specifically designed training sessions the advantage of the visual diagram-auditory text method disappeared. In a second study, the…

A study using Metaphoric Triads Task (MTT) of 92 undergraduates found that subjects perceive event metaphors based on similarities in physical movement more frequently than object metaphors based on similarities in stationary characteristics even when presented in still pictures. The results also showed that motion information increases perception…

Comparison of the temporal processing abilities of nine college students with diagnosed reading disorders and nine typical students found students with reading disorders exhibited significantly higher error rates in discriminating duration patterns than normal reading controls. Significant correlations were found between reading ability measures…

Focuses on the general auditory hypothesis and its special form as proposed by P. Tallal and her colleagues. Reviews evidence for these hypotheses and finds it to be either purely correlational or flawed by misinterpretation of results and/or lack of necessary experimental controls. Concludes deficits in speech perception often observed in…

To examine how mothers cope with the stresses of raising a child with autism, mothers of children with (n=29) and without (n=29) autism were interviewed. Results supporting seven hypotheses suggest that mothers may redefine their roles as a coping strategy. Life satisfaction for mothers of children with autism was positively associated with…

Reflects on the articles in this themed issue on reflective practice. Notes that these teacher/authors have been influenced by prior learning, past experience, feelings, attitudes, values, the school constraints on the learning environment, and their own assumptions about teaching. Describes how teachers have formed a learning community to…

The auditory word gating paradigm was used to examine the quality of the underlying phonological representations in dyslexic and average readers. Although dyslexic children showed age-related nonword and rapid naming deficits, they did not differ from the age-matched controls in the amount of acoustic-phonetic input required to identify sets of…

A history of hearing and a review of the physics of sound is followed by an overview of how the ear works. The outer hair cell is the focus of particular attention because of its central role in the conversion of sound energy into neural energy used by the brain. Contains a list of recommended resources. (CR)

Examines the influence of social support, university comfort, and self-beliefs on the persistence decisions of African American (N=98) undergraduates attending a predominantly White university. Each construct predicted persistence, with university comfort and social support the strongest predictors. A positive perception of the university…

Used event-related potentials to novel and primed upright and inverted faces to examine evidence of repetition priming in 6-month-olds. Found that repeated faces demonstrated greater negativity than novel faces, and upright faces demonstrated greater negativity than inverted faces. Comparisons with adults tested in a similar experiment support the…

Conducted a preliminary test of a model of family leisure functioning by examining the relationship of core and balance family leisure patterns to family cohesion and adaptability. Hypothesized that core leisure patterns address family needs for stability and facilitate cohesive relationships, whereas balance leisure patterns address the need for…

Describes a study in which there was a strong relationship between personal awareness and multicultural counseling skills during group supervision. Suggests that during supervision, supervisors should help counselors-in-training to attain wisdom. This should be done by promoting personal awareness and may result in improvement in both…

A rather consistent finding in studies of perceived (imagined) compared to actual movement in a reaching paradigm is the tendency to overestimate at midline. Explanations of such behavior have focused primarily on perceptions of postural constraints and the notion that individuals calibrate reachability in reference to multiple degrees of freedom,…