Edith Cowan Unive r s i t y I n c re a s i n g l y, telecommunications and information technology are being used in distance education to p rovide education to students in ru r a l and remote schools. This paper re p o rts on the insights and re s p o n s e s of a group of students who accessed the gifted and talented program via telematics during 1996-1997, using audiographic conferencing. For...

The literature contains a disconnect between accounts of how humans learn lexical semantic representations for words. Theories generally propose that lexical semantics are learned either through perceptual experience or through exposure to regularities in language. We propose here a model to integrate these two information sources. Specifically, the model uses the global structure of memory to ...

We discuss potential benefits of research in which attention is directed toward or away from a spoken channel and measures of the allocation of attention are used. This type of research is relevant to at least two basic, still-unresolved issues in cognitive psychology: (a) the extent to which unattended information is processed and (b) the extent to which unattended information that is processe...

Work on this project was supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grants to Jennifer C. Ablow (1 F3 MH11038), Jeffrey R. Measelle (1 F3 MH10816), and Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn P. Cowan (MH31109). Work on the development of training materials for the Berkeley Puppet Interview was supported by a grant to Jennifer C. Ablow and Jeffrey R. Measelle from the MacArthur Foundation Research Ne...