Spatial Orientation and Visual Discrimination

1970 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 943-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Orientation ◽  
Visual Discrimination ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Experimental Task ◽  
Discrimination Test ◽  
Visual Motor

An experimental Visual Discrimination Test of Words was administered to two groups of 32 kindergarten children each, matched for chronological age, intelligence, and sex. One group was identified as having visual perceptual problems in spatial orientation on the Bender Visual-motor Gestalt Test; the other group displayed adequate spatial orientation on the Bender. The data indicated that the experimental task discriminated between Ss with adequate spatial orientation and Ss with poor spatial orientation on the Bender. Ss with developmental lag or deficits in spatial orientation tended to do poorly on both the word-related and non-word-related tasks.

Speech Sound Discrimination and Articulation Skill

1967 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Sherman ◽  
Annette Geith
Keyword(s):  
Speech Sound ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discrimination Test ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Sound Discrimination

A 50-item speech sound discrimination test was administered to 529 kindergarten children. Selected from this group were 18 children with high speech sound discrimination scores and 18 children with low speech sound discrimination scores. These two groups were given a 176-item picture articulation test. The children with high speech sound discrimination scores were superior to the other group in articulation skill. The difference was highly significant.

Loss of Spatial Orientation, Constructional Apraxia and Gerstmann'S Syndrome

1944 ◽  
Vol 90 (380) ◽  
pp. 753-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Stengel
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Orientation ◽  
Parietal Lobe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Angular Gyrus ◽  
Dominant Hemisphere ◽  
Comprehensive Description ◽  
War Injuries ◽  
Constructional Apraxia ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Gerstmann’S Syndrome

In recent years important additions to the knowledge of the symptomatology in cases with involvement of the parietal lobe have been made. Both constructional apraxia (Kleist, 1922) and Gerstmann's syndrome, consisting of finger-agnosia, disturbance of right-left orientation, agraphia and acalculia (1924) have been related to lesions of the angular gyrus of the dominant hemisphere. Before the description of those symptoms, a loss of spatial orientation had been described in cases with lesions of the same localization. Balint (1910), Riddoch (1917), and others had observed that symptom in single cases, but the most comprehensive description was given by Gordon Holmes (1918), who studied it in a case-material of war injuries. When Holmes and his co-workers published their observations, constructional apraxia and Gerstmann's syndrome were still unknown. Loss of spatial orientation as a fully developed symptom is rare, while the other two disorders are not uncommon. For this reason the psychopathological relationship of those symptoms is still insufficiently understood. The following case offers an opportunity for studying the problem:

scholarly journals Age effects on the development of stimulus over-selectivity are mediated by cognitive flexibility and selective attention

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Michelle P. Kelly ◽  
Phil Reed
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
Visual Discrimination ◽  
Discrimination Task ◽  
The Other ◽  
Distractor Task ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Cognitive Variables ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
Developmental Trends

Stimulus over-selectivity is said to have occurred when only a limited subset of the total number of stimuli present during discrimination learning controls behavior, thus, restricting learning about the range, breadth, or all features of a stimulus. The current study investigated over-selectivity of 100 typically developing children, aged 3–7 (mean = 65.50 ± 17.31 SD months), using a visual discrimination task. Developmental trends in over-selectivity and their relationship to some cognitive variables (i.e., selective attention, sustained attention, and cognitive flexibility) were the target. Over-selectivity decreased with age, but this effect was mediated by the development of cognitive flexibility. Over-selectivity increased when a distractor task was introduced, which was not mediated by the other cognitive variables under investigation. The current results assist in the establishment of the theoretical underpinnings of over-selectivity by offering evidence of its underlying determinants and relating these to developmental trends.

Test-Retest Comparisons Using the CELF-RST and BLT-2S With Kindergartners

1996 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Summers ◽  
George W. Larson ◽  
Shirley A. Miguel ◽  
Sandra L. Terrell
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Evaluation ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
The Other ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Language Test ◽  
School Year ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist

The purpose of this study was to explore the performance stability of 101 kindergarten children on two commonly used screening tests: the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Revised Screening Test (CELF-RST) and the Bankson Language Test-Second Edition (BLT-2S). Both screening tests were administered at the beginning of the school year and again 7 months later. Several interesting findings emerged that may have significant implications for the speech-language pathologist working in the schools: (a) Children scored significantly higher on both tests during the second administration, despite the absence of any intervention from a speech-language pathologist; (b) almost one fourth of the children who failed the first test passed the second administration, despite the absence of intervention; and (3) approximately one-third of the kindergartners were inconsistently identified (i.e., passed one test but failed the other). Implications for the speech-language pathologist are discussed.

An Enquiry into the Determinants of a Differentiation between Elderly “Organic” and “Non-Organic” Psychiatric Patients on the Bender Gestalt Test

1957 ◽  
Vol 103 (431) ◽  
pp. 364-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Shapiro ◽  
Jack Field ◽  
F. Post
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
The Other ◽  
Level Of Confidence ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
High Level ◽  
Bender Gestalt Test ◽  
And Control

In a previous study, Shapiro, Post, Lofving and Inglis (10) found that a modified version of the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test differentiated, at a high level of confidence, three groups of elderly psychiatric patients: brain-damaged patients, functionals and a group of doubtful diagnosis. This level of confidence was far higher than that of any of the other 24 tests used. Furthermore, a number of recent studies have shown that the Bender test differentiated Organic from non-Organic subjects (2, 4, 6, 7, 8). In our own Department Yates (13) found significant differences on measures of the reproductions of other designs between Organics and Functionals. In view of these findings we decided to investigate our own results further. Our general purpose was to measure and control some of the variables appearing relevant in the performance of the task and in this way make possible testable explanations for the results.

Syllable Durations of Preword and Early Word Vocalizations

1990 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 583-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Robb ◽  
John H. Saxman
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Environmental Input ◽  
Continuity Theory ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Syllable Duration ◽  
Final Syllable

The continuity in development of syllable duration patterns was examined in 7 young children as they progressed from preword to multiword periods of vocalization development. Using a combination of lexical and chronological age points, monthly vocalization samples were analyzed for bisyllable duration and final syllable lengthening. Results revealed no systematic increase or decrease in the duration of bisyllables produced by the children as a group. Lengthening of final syllables was observed across nearly all recording sessions for all children. It is likely that the feature of bisyllable duration is not discernibly sensitive to changes associated with a developing speech mechanism and environmental input. On the other hand, the regularity in final syllable lengthening is consistent with a continuity theory of development.

Analysis of Multi-Environment Yield Trails of Clusterbean [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.] Genotypes using GGE Biplot

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Manivannan
Keyword(s):  
Total Variation ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Pooled Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stability Test ◽  
Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba ◽  
Gge Biplot ◽  
Discrimination Test ◽  
Test Environment ◽  
The Ideal

A set of 42 clusterbean genotypes were evaluated for yield attributing trait pods per plant over three environments. Pooled analysis of variance showed that Environments (E) explained highest proportion of variation for pods per plant, accounting for 42.16% of it, followed by G × E interactions (GEI) effects (31.1%) and genotype (26.7%). Higher effect of GEI compared to G alone indicated the possible existence of mega environments among the testing locations. The biplot explained 89% of the total variation relative to G plus GEI. Based on environment discrimination test, Environment 1(Madurai) is the ideal environment. Which Won Where (WWW) Polygon identified the most diverse genotypes namely M local, T local, RGC1055, RGC1033, HGS75, MRSG6 and CAZG10-2 were found to be highly diverse. These genotypes also occupied the convex of the hull. The genotype CAZG10-2 won in the Environment1 (E1) and the genotype HGS75 won in both environments E2 (Coimbatore) and E3 (Kovilpatti). Genotype stability test identified genotypes namely RGC1031, R local, HGS75, MRG1786, HGS2-1, HGS365, RGC1003, HGS2-4, HGS2-20 and PNB were stable over the other genotypes as they placed near to the Average Environment Coordination (AEC) abscissa.

Adults with Down Syndrome Benefit from Visual Instructions for Spatial-Temporal Aspects of Drumming

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon D. Ringenbach ◽  
Anna Balp-Riera
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Mental Age ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
Temporal Measures ◽  
Visual Instructions

Ten adults with Down syndrome (DS), 10 mental age-matched, and 10 chronological age-matched participants drummed continuously with both hands for 10 s in response to verbal in-phase (”up,” “down”) and anti-phase (”left,” “right”), visual in-phase (video of both drumsticks moving up and down together) and anti-phase (video of the left, then right drumstick hitting each drum), and auditory in-phase (sound of both drums being hit, then cymbal being hit) and anti-phase (sound of one drum being hit, then the other drum being hit) instructions. Timing and coordination consistency were similar for in-phase and anti-phase drumming for adults with DS, whereas in-phase was more consistent than anti-phase drumming for CA. In addition, spatial-temporal measures showed performance advantages when using visual instructions.

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