Braille-phonics: a new technique for aiding the reading disabled.
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H D Fishbein
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Memory effects in visual spatial information processing.
Eight, ten and twelve year old children were tested on a novel procedure involving the successive presentation of the standard and comparison stimuli. Two hypotheses were evaluated, one dealing with memory effects, and the other with children's pre-testing of choice responses in spatial information processing. It was found, in general, for both spatial perception and coordination of perspectives tasks, that there was no short memory decay for spatial information, but that opportunities to pre-test choice responses improved performance. It was inferred from these data that the performance superiority under simultaneous than successive conditions is attributable to opportunities to pre-test responses and not to memory effects, as opposed to successive conditions is attributable to opportunities to pre-test responses and not to memory effects.
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Cross-modality transfer of spatial information.
First, second, and fourth grade boys and girls were tested on a spatial task requiring perception of the location of a group of three geometrical objects. The initial sensory input was either visual or tactual/kinaesthetic, and the choice stimuli, which were presented either simultaneously with the objects, or after the objects were removed (successively) were photographs of different configurations of the objects. There was no performance difference between th intramodal and cross-modal conditions, although older children performed better than younger ones, and performance was better under the simultaneous than successive conditions. It was concluded that in making complex visual spatial judgements, visual perceptual representations mediate performance under both tactual/kinaesthetic and visual sensory inputs.
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