A resource teacher describes a word imprinting technique which helped to increase reading and memory skills of an 8-year-old student with auditory perception problems. (CL)

The relationship between auditory perceptual test performance and Kagan's Reflection-Impulsivity Dimension was explored with 44 white, middle class kindergarteners. (Author/GW)

Models of stuttering and delayed auditory feedback propose that, in these conditions, the rhythmic structure of fluent speech prespecifing the intervals between vowels of stressed syllables is lacking and that auditory perception of vowels of stressed syllables is predicted incorrectly. A model regarding onset of stuttering in children is also…

Stating that the most pressing and puzzling scientific questions are questions about properties, not about change, the authors examine Piaget's and other theories of human development. Disputes the constructivist view that the initial cognitive state is one of emptiness, showing that from birth, humans react to certain stimuli in specific ways,…

Mildly mentally retarded adolescents (N=14) and mental age-matched nonretarded children participated in three experiments examining language processing efficiency. Results suggested that the retarded and nonretarded differ in the speed with which the semantic-analytic processes are executed but not necessarily the phonological encoding processes…

Eighteen adults with developmental dyslexia were asked to repeat orally what they heard. Analysis of responses revealed an average vowel error rate of 29 percent and an average consonantal error rate of 22 percent, significantly different from those of nondyslexic control groups. Clinical histories suggested genetic transmission of the speech…

Tested Bandler and Grinder's proposal that eye movement direction and spoken predicates are indicative of sensory modality of imagery. Subjects reported images in the three modes, but no relation between imagery and eye movements or predicates was found. Visual images were most vivid and often reported. Most subjects rated themselves as visual,…

Confusion is cited regarding the meaning and nature of central auditory dysfunction, and types of tests composing a central auditory test battery are described. Tests focus on auditory closure, auditory figure-ground, and dichotic listening. (CL)

Supports auditory research which clarly demonstrates that auditory perception is adversely affected by noise. (Author/RB)

A persuasion scale assessing counselor conviction and client agreement was used to rate 900 counselor statements. The 24 highest rated and 15 lowest rated persuasive statements were fed into a graphic level recorder. Differences in the graphs of high- and low- persuasive statements indicated that loudness is a characteristic of persuasion. (Author)

Examines the relationship between illusory changes of repeated words (verbal transformations) and illusory presence of phonemes replaced by noise (phonemic restorations); paper presented at the 82nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, Colorado, October 1971, and supported in part by a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate…

Newborn cardiac activity was analyzed in the context of the orienting response before and after a feeding, while sleeping and awake. Newborns tended to respond to stimuli with less variability when tested before feeding. The newborn's cardiac response to stimuli in different modalities is affected by arousal state and feeding condition. (ST)

The notion that response bias may spuriously influence categorical judgments on discrimination tasks with unequal response alternatives was investigated using the Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test. (Author)