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Pictures for the blind: An investigation of the influence of pictures on recall of text by blind children
Author(s) -
Pring L.,
Rusted J.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
british journal of developmental psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2044-835X
pISSN - 0261-510X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-835x.1985.tb00953.x
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , cognitive psychology , presentation (obstetrics) , recall test , developmental psychology , free recall , medicine , radiology
The study investigated the extent to which two groups of blind children were able to use tactual picture information to improve memory performance for auditorily presented texts. Adventitiously blind children demonstrated significant increases in amount recalled with illustrated presentation, showing improved recall of information represented in both the text and the picture. For congenitally blind children, the pictures also produced increased recall of pictorial information, but this was at the expense of recall of non‐pictorial information represented in the text only.