The influence of the kinaesthetic factor in the perception of symbols in partial reading disability.

Abstract

1 This study was profitably divided into two analagous sections, hereafter known as Experiment I and Experiment II. The distinction being made upon a difference in learning material-nonsense syllables in Experiment I and geometrical figures in Experiment II.

Influence of writing style and categorical information on identification of tactile numerals and letters

“…Pattern recognition is clearly dependent on the sequence and/or direction of strokes. These results are consistent with the suggestionsof Parsons and his colleagues (e.g., Shimojo, Sasaki, Parsons, & Torti, 1989)that link recognition to representation of movement patterns (Berman, 1939;Hulme, 1981). Therefore, one may be likely to recognize a pattern that one has already learned to generate.…”