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ASPECTS OF AUDITORY AND VISUAL ATTENTION TO NARRATIVE MATERIAL IN NORMAL AND MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Grieve Robert,
Williamson Kay
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1977.tb00437.x
Subject(s) - psychology , comprehension , remedial education , narrative , mentally retarded , audiology , developmental psychology , auditory stimuli , cognitive psychology , visual perception , perception , linguistics , neuroscience , medicine , philosophy , mathematics education
Summary Estimates of auditory and visual attention to narrative material presented on a video system were obtained from groups of normal and mentally retarded children. Visual attention was relatively high, and consistently so across time. In comprehension tests, success was greatest on items which could be answered from visual attention alone, then on items which could be answered from either visual or auditory attention, then on items which could be answered from auditory attention alone. Interpretation of these results is discussed, and possible implications indicated both for remedial work with retarded children, and for techniques in basic research with normal children.