Intuitively, dynamic visual stimuli, such as moving objects or flashing lights, attract attention. Visual search tasks have revealed that dynamic targets among static distractors can indeed efficiently guide attention. The present study shows that the reverse case, a static target among dynamic distractors, allows for relatively efficient…

The authors present a comprehensive consideration of the process characteristics of visual search in contexts that vary in their meaningfulness. The authors frame hypotheses regarding process architecture, stopping rule, capacity, and channel independence, using analytic results and a rigorously specified dynamic system to characterize a set of…

Translation accounts have argued that the presence of a Stroop effect in the context of a nonvocal untranslated response is caused by verbal mediation. In its simplest form, color-labeled buttons are translated into a verbal code that interferes with color responses. On this logic, in the reverse Stroop task (identify the word; ignore the color),…

In the United States, the likelihood that an art teacher may teach a child with autism in an inclusive classroom is high, since one out of every 166 children in the country is diagnosed with autism. Federal law mandates that every child has the right to a free and appropriate education. Some children with autism have exceptional artistic abilities…

This article seeks to articulate developing trends in art education and practice, locating such movements within the broader cultural contexts of globalization, neoliberal capitalism, and postmodernity. Against this more general synopsis, the autobiographical position of the author as a student and teacher of art will be elucidated as inextricably…

The central and peripheral visual fields are structurally segregated in the brain and are differentiated by their anatomical and functional characteristics. While the central field appears well suited for tasks such as visual search, the periphery is optimized for rapid processing over broad regions. People vary in their abilities to make use of…

The basic problem in learning the English language is that it is a visual, not phonetic, language. Because they have not learned many of the basic visual abilities, many children do not have an adequate skill of visualization. The sequence of visual development includes: general movement patterns of action, special movement patterns of action, eye…

Visual education is a field that has tremendous potential which it still has not begun to realize. (Author)

Results of this investigation involving 50 deaf and 50 hearing students (14-18 years old) indicate extensive use of visual matching test-taking strategies by deaf subjects but not by hearing subjects. The extent of strategy use was not related to deaf subjects' overall performance on the lookback test. (Author/CL)

Visual short-term memory depends upon an ordered two-dimensional array of locations for its existence, whereas associative memory relies on associations between character representatives. (CK)

Article based on speech given before First Annual National Conference on Visual Literacy (Rochester, New York, March, 1969).

The paper stresses the significant role of vision in the general developmental and educational process for hearing impaired students with and without visual impairments. (Author)

Compares three formats for presenting a number of similar procedures in printed instructions: separate lists, an integrated list, and a table. Expects that the integrated list format and the table format will provide overview of the features common to the similar procedures--finds such results did not appear. Finds that none of the formats scored…