Two experiments examined the influence of a delay between learning and reproducing locations on 7-, 9- and 11-year-old children's memory for location. Findings indicated that bias toward category centers when replacing objects in their original locations increased following an intervening delay, as predicted by the Category-Adjustment model, with…

Explores the effects of self-regulation strategies on 35 undergraduate students' perception of a listening situation. Selects three different metacognitive strategies for closer investigation: interest management, asking pre-questions, and elaboration techniques. Finds that results support the hypothesis that these strategies, when appropriately…

Used a semantic and morpho-syntactic priming paradigm to examine at which processing stage the advantage of blind adults may arise. Concludes that the faster speech comprehension skills of blind adults may originate from a more efficient perceptual analysis rather than from a more extended use of semantic or morpho-syntactic context information.…

Reports two experiments that assessed the role of orthography in constraining subject verb agreement in written and spoken French. Contrasted a condition in which the singular and plural forms of the subject head nouns were homophones but non-homographs with a condition in which the subject head ones were homophones and homographs in their…

Presents Dr. Ben Shneiderman and Dr. James Hendler debate on what the future Web should look like; how do we get there; to what extent should the Web mimic human behavior; during the closing session of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Annual Meeting, (Washington, DC, November 3-8, 2001). (JMK)

Investigated developmental trends associated with the Deese/Roediger-McDermott false-memory effect, the role of distinctive information, and subjective experience of true/false memories. Found that 5-year-olds recalled more false memories than adults but no age differences in recognition of critical lures. Distinctive information reduced false…

In order to shed light on the needs of children with cortical visual impairments, normal visual development of infants is described. Infant preferences for motion, faces, and black-and-white patterns are explained. Colors useful in stimulating vision development and the time needed for exposure to visual stimuli are discussed. (CR)

Discusses the dichotomy between rational and nonrational learning processes, arguing for an integration of both. Reviews information processing theory and related learning strategies. Presents a model instructional strategy that fully integrates rational and nonrational processes. Describes implications for teaching and learning of the learning…

Defines higher order learning and its component parts, and describes how it can be taught. Argues that effective strategy training interventions use multicomponent interventions, embed strategy training interventions, offer practice of higher-order skills within the context of existing curricula, explain the utility of different cognitive and…

This brief introduction to E. Jan Kappers' article "Outpatient Treatment of Dyslexia through Stimulation of the Cerebral Hemispheres" reviews the lifetime work of Kappers in the field of dyslexia. (CR)

Presents an interview with Noriko Akatsuka concerning her studies of the relationship between a speaker's state of mind and modality. Notes that the interviewee has concentrated on conditionals using data chiefly from Japanese, Korean, and English, with the primary goal of using conditional construction as a tool to investigate questions…

Two experiments, involving 12 adults who stutter and 12 controls, evaluated the effects on speech response latency of picture naming tasks designed to place selective demands on lexicalization. The experiments investigated the effects of one-word versus two-word responses and a word's frequency of occurrence versus its number of syllables.…

Examines the causes of public anger and intellectual embarrassment with computer literacy and argues that it is no mere coincidence that intellectual embarrassment has become our besetting cultural vice at the same time that information technology proliferates. Roszak suggests that the book belongs to a rich and necessary way of thinking that…

Examined relation between early fantasy/pretense and knowledge about mental life in 3- and 4-year olds. Found that performance on theory of mind tasks was significantly intercorrelated when effects of verbal intelligence and age were statistically controlled. Individual differences in fantasy/pretense were related to theory of mind performance in…

Attempted to clarify whether fear is related to distorted cognitive processing of fear-related information. Administered card and single-trial formats of Stroop task to spider-fearing and control children. Found bias for spider words in both, regardless of format; further, processing biases assessed by the formats did not correlate, suggesting…