
ERIC Number: ED139368
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1976-Oct
Pages: 35
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Perceptual Information Processing as a Function of Spatial and Verbal Individual Differences.
Randhawa, Bikkar S.; Hunt, Dennis
Individual differences in perceptual information processing were tested using 327 ten year old children, with verbal tasks representing successive information processing and spatial tasks representing simultaneous information processing. Three sets of tasks, (1) visual/reconstruction (V/R), (2) visual/verbal (V/VL), and (3) verbal/reconstruction (VL/R), were used to assess the interaction of verbal and spatial information processing. Significant spatial verbal interaction was obtained for V/VL and VL/R sets of tasks. Verbal coding of simultaneous information posed more difficulty for the subjects than non-verbal coding of verbal information. (STS)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Characteristics, Lateral Dominance, Neurological Impairments, Pattern Recognition, Perception, Perception Tests, Space Orientation, Verbal Ability, Verbal Stimuli, Verbal Tests, Visual Literacy, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Sponsor: Council for Exceptional Children, Toronto (Ontario). Canadian Committee.
Authoring Institution: Iowa Univ., Iowa City. Coll. of Education.
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