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Nine tests requiring visual or auditory pattern comparison, visual-auditory intersensory integration, temporal-spatial integration, or both types of integration simultaneously were administered to 414 first-grade children. Error scores indicate that neither auditory-visual nor temporal-spatial integration is more difficult than similar comparisons not involving integration. Spatial patterns were much easier to compare by contrast to temporal patterns.
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This report is based on research supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Grant 5 R01 HD-02090, and by a USPHS Research Career Development award, HD 6907 to G. M. Sterritt. Our appreciation is expressed to the Office of Planning, Research, and Budgeting of Denver Public Schools for their cooperation in this study. Dr. Gene Glass and Mr. James R. Collins of the Laboratory of Educational Research, University of Colorado, generously assisted in the statistical analyses. Marilyn Felton assisted in the collection and tabulation of data.
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Rudnick, M., Martin, V. & Sterritt, G.M. On the relative difficulty of auditory and visual temporal and spatial, integrative and nonintegrative sequential pattern comparisons. Psychon Sci 27, 207–210 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328939
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