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Visual and Acoustic Encoding in Young and Old Adults.
Clarkson-Smith, Louise; Halpern, Diane F. – 1984
Earlier research (Thorson, et al., 1976) found that latencies increase for acoustically confusable letter pairs and decrease for visually confusable letter pairs as a positive function of interstimulus interval (ISI). To extend these findings to different age groups, 30 young adults (mean age, 21.4 years) and 30 older adults (mean age, 68.8 years)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Encoding (Psychology), Memory
Auditory Perception, Phonological Processing, and Reading Ability/Disability.
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Watson, Betty U.; Miller, Theodore K. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
This study of 94 college undergraduates, including 24 with a reading disability, found that speech perception was strongly related to 3 of 4 phonological variables, including short-term and long-term auditory memory and phoneme segmentation, which were in turn strongly related to reading. Nonverbal temporal processing was not related to any…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education
The Effectiveness of Imagery and Sentence Strategy Instructions as a Function of Visual and Auditory Processing in Young School-Age Children.
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Weed, Keri; Ryan, Ellen Bouchard – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Investigates the relationship between auditory and visual processing modality and strategy instruction in first- and second-grade children. Determines sentence strategy to be effective for both auditory and visual processing. (HOD)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Grade 1, Grade 2, Imagery