This paper explores relationships of visual images to verbal elements, beginning with a discussion of visible language as represented by words printed on the page. The visual flexibility inherent in typography is discussed in terms of the appearance of the letters and the denotative and connotative meanings represented by type, typographical…

PREVIOUS STUDIES REPORT THAT CHILDREN WHO ARE GOOD READERS DIFFER IN RESPONSE CONSENSUALITY FROM POOR READERS IN A WORK-ASSOCIATION TASK INVOLVING VERBAL OR PICTORIAL STIMULI. TO DETERMINE WHETHER THIS NONCONSENSUALITY EXISTS AMONG ADULTS FROM DIFFERENT READING LEVELS, 15 ADULTS WERE RANDOMLY CHOSEN FROM EACH OF THREE GROUPS--(1) AN ADULT BASIC…

Structural coherence (SC) and discriminability were the two variables in this study of information displays. Discriminability refers to the obvious differences between words and pictures; SC is the degree to which elements of a display appear as integrated. The study presented the items to be learned in verbal or pictorial form, with the degree of…

A set of guidelines has been developed for the implementation of the audio mode in computer assisted instruction (CAI). The manual contains a collection of conventions and techniques synthesized from recent publications in areas pertinent to multi-media audiovisual presentation. These areas include audio message placement, positioning, frequency,…

The problem of generating verbal cues to facilitate psychomotor skill training is considered in the context of flight instruction. The flying task is conceptualized in terms of a pilot-aircraft closed loop control system. The control system model effectively illustrates the three types of informational stimuli necessary for the pilot's effective…

This study measured responsiveness to the immediate environment on the basis of the social (vs. neutral) content of a person's free associations, in an effort to relate this responsiveness to field-dependence. The results lend support to the view that field-dependence is associated with social responsiveness in word association. Two aspects of…

Performance changes during the course of single-trial free recall were investigated in five experiments. (Author/RM)

Electroencephalograms were analyzed during performance of verbal and spatial tasks. Complex scalp distributions of theta-, beta-, and, to a lesser extent, alpha-band spectral intensities discriminated between the two members of a pair of tasks, such as writing sentences and Koh's block design. (Author/BB)

Compares the rates of forgetting of five-item sequences of acoustically similar and dissimilar consonants and words in the absence of proactive and retroactive interference in order to test whether within sequence similarity rather than stimulus length would have a greater influence on retention. (Author/RK)

This study suggests that the verbal facilitation effect is due to variations in verbal cues rather than to differences in pictorial cues. (ST)

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)

Dichotic presentation involves the auditory presentation of different verbal messages simultaneously. Investigations involving repetition effects on this process are discussed. (Author/RY)