Orienting Attention in the Visual Fields: An Electrophysiological Analysis

This article explores illustrated children’s books that were published in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan (1928–1932). Targeting mostly preschool and elementary school children, these books are creatively illustrated, offering their readers highly detailed accounts of economic and political development in the country. Soviet pedagogues perceived this literature as a tool for training “literate spectators,” able to discern social and political importance of images. The article follows this idea, using the books for tracing visual regimes that represented class and ethnicity in the 1920s–1930s. Picture books for children successfully reflected the dual nature of socialist transformations in the USSR, where building new sites of industrial production were closely linked with the building of new nations. Very early on, this literature also documented the bifurcation of this dual process. The detailed portrayal of ethnic distinctions was paralleled by the visual disappearance of the working class, producing a stream of illustrations in which technology and ethnic groups emerged as self-sufficient visual fields, ostensibly disconnected from class, labor, and history.

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Electrophysiological analysis of the trigemino-tecto-olivo-cerebellar (crus II) projection in the rat

Brain Research ◽

10.1016/0006-8993(88)91529-6 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 442 (2) ◽

pp. 373-378 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Tadashi Akaike

Keyword(s):

Electrophysiological Analysis

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Visual Field Accuracy and Eye Movement Direction: A Child's Eye View

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.1177/003151258005000250 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 631-636

Author(s):

Evans Mandes

Keyword(s):

Eye Movements ◽

Visual Field ◽

Eye Movement ◽

Visual Fields ◽

Movement Direction

Post-exposural eye movements were studied in 32 adults and 24 7-yr.-old children. Stimuli were binary figures exposed tachistoscopically in both visual fields simultaneously. The data showed significant correlations between direction of eye movement and locus of recognition for both children and adults. No significant differences were found in frequencies of eye movements of children and adults. The data are interpreted in terms of the facilitative effects of post-exposural eye movements upon perception for both groups.

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