Young adults and older subjects were given the classical task of the discrimination of lifted weights. The present study did not show older people with higher response criteria than the young. Caution on the part of older people may be specific to certain classes of task. (Author)

The Halstead Neuropsychological Test Battery for Children profiles revealed that neuropsychological behavior deficits of impaired asthmatic children exist predominantly in visualizing and remembering spatial configurations, in incidental memory, and in planning and executing visual and tactile motor tasks. (Author)

GROUPS OF 24 BLIND ADULTS (ALL SKILLED BRAILLE READERS) AND 24 SIGHTED COLLEGE STUDENTS WERE COMPARED ON A TACTUAL IDENTIFICATION OF FORM TASK IN WHICH RAISED DOTS WERE USED. THE TWO INFORMATION PARAMETERS, COMPLEXITY AND REDUNDANCY OF THE DOTS, WERE ASSESSED USING PUNCTIFORM METRIC FIGURES RESEMBLING HISTOGRAMS AND SIMILAR IN SIZE AND SPACING TO…

Examines 3-month-old infants' perception of "camouflaged" forms that were only visible when moving. Shows infants effectively use kinetic information to organize visual input in higher-order structures. (HOD)

Investigating relationship between infants' visual and tactual exploration, looking and touching responses of 6-month-olds to objects only visually or tactually novel were observed. Results indicated infants were capable of tactual recognition memory, that temperature was salient object property, and that visual and tactual exploration are not…

Author suggests ways in which parents and teachers can assist their children with early experience in sensory perception of the natural environment. (Author/RK)

Isolates active ingredients of the coping-skills component: sensory discriminative (SD), motivational affective (MA), and cognitive evaluative (CE) skills. Checks on independent variable manipulation reveal that SD skills are learned and employed, MA skills are already known but refined, and CE skills are largely ignored. (Author)

ONE OF A SERIES OF PROVISIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN THE FIELD OF SENSORY RESEARCH RELATED TO SENSORY (ESPECIALLY VISUAL) IMPAIRMENT, THE DOCUMENT LISTS 284 SELECTED WORKS ON ELECTRICAL STIMUATION OF SKIN. PRIMARILY JOURNAL ARTICLES, BUT INCLUDING SOME BOOKS AND SEVERAL THESES, THE ITEMS DATE FROM 1891 THROUGH 1967 (IN PRESS). PUBLICATIONS CITED ARE…

Illustrated by full-page photographs, this book focuses on each of the child's five senses and shows how the senses are interrelated. Activities are suggested to increase the child's sensory awareness. (CS)