Perceptual information process of different visual stimuli by eight-year-old children.

The present study investigated processing differences from pictorial (P), word (W), and sentence (S) inputs under reconstruction (R) and verbal description (VD) outputs of 8-year-old Ss. The analysis of simple effects indicated that information output from words or sentences was better than from pictures when the tasks were of low complexity. It appears that simple stimuli are processed through a scheme of transformations and non-verbal storage.