Some Bases for Crossmodal Facilitation in Numerosity Judgments
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Two experiments were conducted with 80 college students to examine factors associated with the crossmodal facilitation of learning Braille symbols when the visual modality is utilized. In Experiment 1 subjects using the haptic mode were informed of both the structure of the braille cell and the range of dot numerosity of the symbols to be employed. Haptic subjects given this information did as well as subjects who studied the symbols visually. Experiment 2 attempted to determined which of the two kinds of information was the basis for the improv 1 learning effectiveness. This study found that both the general and specific types of information were important as was the interrelationship between the two. (DB) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made /, from the original document. * *********************************************************************** O O CO t.11 O r4 C:".1 1.0 Some Bases for Crossmodal Facilitation in Numerosity Judgments Slater E. Newman, Thomas S. Brugler, Randall A. Craig, Nutria K. M-nn and David A. Woodard North Carolina State University (Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Americzn Psychological Association, Atlanta. GA, August, 1988) U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC, toThis document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it C Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction duality Pants of view or opinions stated in this docu merit do not necessarily represent otticial OERI Position or pact'
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We have recently suggested that numerosity is a primary sensory attribute, and shown that it is strongly susceptible to adaptation. Here we use the Method of Single Stimuli to show that observers can extract a running average of numerosity of a succession of stimuli to use as a standard of comparison for subsequent stimuli. On separate sessions observers judged whether the perceived numerosity ...
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