The Cambridge picture dictionary.

Preparado para niños de más de siete años que están aprendiendo inglés, les ayuda a mejorar la comprensión del idioma y a disfrutar de su aprendizaje. También les prepara para saber manejar un diccionario.

My fun picture dictionary.

Obra de referencia para descubrir más de cuatrocientas palabras esenciales, sus definiciones y cómo utilizarlas, que se explican en un contexto que los niños entienden fácilmente.

Let's get together : poem and picture posters.

Explorar los poemas: en cada cartel puede hacerse lectura compartida del poema. Leer el poema en voz alta invitando a los niños a unirse, repitiendo cada palabra. Llamar la atención sobre el ritmo del poema. Destacar y comentar las palabras que riman. También pueden organizarse distintas actividades de acuerdo a las características de cada cartel.

Picture books for the literacy hour : activities for primary teachers.

Proporciona una guía práctica a los profesores que están aplicando la estrategia nacional de alfabetización para las etapas 1 y 2 (key stage 1 y 2). Se muestra como se pueden lograr los objetivos de aprendizaje a través de actividades significativas relacionadas con el texto elegido. Así, para enseñar a leer y escribir se utilizan cuentos populares, poemas, mitos y leyendas de diferentes tradiciones culturales. A cada libro propuesto le acompaña una detallada descripción de las actividades a realizar y hojas con actividades para fotocopiar.

The effect of "picture story" context on verbal elicted imitation in deaf students

This paper reviews a study to determine the effects of including a supporting context in an imitation procedure for use with the deaf.

Adapting the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test for deaf children

This paper examines adapting the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), a receptive vocabulary test, for hearing-impaired children.

Comparing two receptive vocabulary tests: The receptive one word vocabulary test and the peabody picture vocabulary test

This paper discusses a study to determine whether the Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test is more useful than the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test in assessing the vocabularies of hearing imparied children.

Gaze fixations predict brain activation during the voluntary regulation of picture-induced negative affect

Recent studies have identified a distributed network of brain regions thought to support cognitive reappraisal processes underlying emotion regulation in response to affective images, including parieto-temporal regions and lateral/medial regions of prefrontal cortex (PFC). A number of these commonly activated regions are also known to underlie visuospatial attention and oculomotor control, which raises the possibility that people use attentional redeployment rather than, or in addition to, reappraisal as a strategy to regulate emotion. We predicted that a significant portion of the observed variance in brain activation during emotion regulation tasks would be associated with differences in how participants visually scan the images while regulating their emotions. We recorded brain activation using fMRI and quantified patterns of gaze fixation while participants increased or decreased their affective response to a set of affective images. fMRI results replicated previous findings on emotion regulation with regulation differences reflected in regions of PFC and the amygdala. In addition, our gaze fixation data revealed that when regulating, individuals changed their gaze patterns relative to a control condition. Furthermore, this variation in gaze fixation accounted for substantial amounts of variance in brain activation. These data point to the importance of controlling for gaze fixation in studies of emotion regulation that use visual stimuli.

Name agreement in picture naming: An ERP study

Name agreement is the extent to which different people agree on a name for a particular picture. Previous studies have found that it takes longer to name low name agreement pictures than high name agreement pictures. To examine the effect of name agreement in the online process of picture naming, we compared event-related potentials (ERPs) recorded whilst 19 healthy, native English speakers silently named pictures which had either high or low name agreement. A series of ERP components was examined: P1 approximately 120ms from picture onset, N1 around 170ms, P2 around 220ms, N2 around 290ms, and P3 around 400ms. Additionally, a late time window from 800 to 900ms was considered. Name agreement had an early effect, starting at P1 and possibly resulting from uncertainty of picture identity, and continuing into N2, possibly resulting from alternative names for pictures. These results support the idea that name agreement affects two consecutive processes: first, object recognition, and second, lexical selection and/or phonological encoding.

Picture book exposure elicits positive visual preferences in toddlers

Although the relationship between "mere exposure" and attitude enhancement is well established in the adult domain, there has been little similar work with children. This article examines whether toddlers' visual attention toward pictures of foods can be enhanced by repeated visual exposure to pictures of foods in a parent-administered picture book. We describe three studies that explored the number and nature of exposures required to elicit positive visual preferences for stimuli and the extent to which induced preferences generalize to other similar items. Results show that positive preferences for stimuli are easily and reliably induced in children and, importantly, that this effect of exposure is not restricted to the exposed stimulus per se but also applies to new representations of the exposed item. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.