Effects of Tactual and Phonological Similarity on the Recall of Braille Letters by Blind Children

Forty‐eight severely blind children, able to cope with set‐sizes of two and three, four, five or six serial items were tested on probed recall of Braille letters they could either name or discriminate, when the letters were (1) dissimilar in tactual characteristics and name sounds, (2) similar in feel, but different in name sound, and (3) dissimilar in feel but similar in name sound. Results showed that tactual similarity produced recall decrements by subjects able to be tested under set‐sizes of up to five items, while phonological similarity produced recall decrements by subjects testable under set‐sizes of five and six items. It was argued that tactual information survives perception and affects recall, and that blind children can encode tactual inputs either tactually or verbally, but that this probably depends upon different processes

Braille · Cognitive psychology · Free recall · Linguistics · Perception · Recall · Recall test · Set (abstract data type) · Similarity (geometry) · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Psychology · Safety Warnings and Signage · Tactile and Sensory Interactions

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