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Perceptual tests were administered to children during the summer before they entered first grade. Some tests required comparison of visual with auditory stimuli, and other tests required comparison of temporally patterned with spatially patterned stimuli. Several tests involved both of these kinds of perceptual comparison, while other tests involved neither. Mean error scores on the various tests indicated that spatial patterns are perceived or remembered more readily than temporal patterns. Neither auditory-visual nor temporal-spatial integration, however, appears more difficult than similar comparisons involving no integrations.
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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 No. 5 R01 HD-02090, and by a USPHS Research Career Development Award, HD 6907, to G. M. Sterritt.
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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Sterritt, G.M., Martin, V. & Rudnick, M. Auditory-visual and temporal-spatial integration as determinants of test difficulty. Psychon Sci 23, 289–291 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336115
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