Six studies were performed investigating the relationship between digit span (DS) capacity and other memory and problem solving tasks: (1) Ss were administered a DS test, an aurally presented mental addition test, a similar multiplication task, and a written timed division test. DS correlated only with the second; (2) Ss were required to…

Many disciplines, including semantics, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and the practical arts, have contributed to our knowledge of visual literacy. Insights these disciplines have made about the nature of meaning, art, or perception apply to visual literacy. If, as some studies indicate, some children are visually rather than verbally…

The papers included here are based on a 1971 symposium held at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association in San Francisco. The first three papers report the results of research carried out over the last few years at the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning. Levin's paper focuses on the effectiveness of…

Direct care staff were taught via picture programs to transfer nonambulatory, severely mentally retarded men between their beds and wheelchairs. The still color photographs illustrated procedures and the addition of study guide questions increased the program's effectiveness. (Author/DB)

Explores four means of expressing musical concepts: symbolic, visual, motor, and semantics in Egyptian Education. Tests the Walker Theory which holds that there will be no difference in responses among individuals in any of the four areas. (RKM)

Significant visual and visual-perceptual problems must be identified in the early school years to save unnecessary stress, frustration, and anxiety. Classroom diagnosis using formal and informal measures can lead to referral to developmental or functional optometrists. (CL)

In two experiments 36 elementary and junior high learning-disabled (LD) students were taught attributes of minerals via mnemonic instruction, free study, or a visual-spatial display condition. In both experiments, students learned significantly more information in the mnemonic condition, and students in the visual-spatial condition did not…

A study examining the visual-auditory integration ability of 16 mildly mentally retarded adolescents revealed that Ss did significantly better on intrasensory than intersensory tasks and were more effective on tasks requiring judgments of intrasensory equivalence than those requiring judgments of intersensory equivalence. (Author/CL)

Article describes an experimental project in Milford, Ohio, in which students were taught visually. (HB)

Two experiments are an attempt to provide a description of three commonly observed phenomena of recognition behavior for alphabet characters in terms of the mathematics of correlation. (Author/KM)

Concludes that combined audiovisual presentations were significantly superior to either audio or visual presentations of information, thus confirming the validity of the Cue Summation Theory. (RB)

This article deals with studies that manipulated physical parameters of pictures- the amount of realistic detail, color versus black and white, and moving versus still pictures. (Author)