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Direct linkRuthe Foushee; Mahesh Srinivasan; Fei Xu – Developmental Science, 2025
We introduce a novel method to test a classic idea in developmental science that children's attention to a stimulus is driven by how much they can learn from it. Preschoolers (4-6 years, M=4.6) watched a video where a distracting animation accompanied static, page-by-page illustrations of a storybook. The audio narration for each storybook page…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Attention, Listening, Eye Movements
Margaret Cychosz; Rachel R. Romeo; Jan R. Edwards; Rochelle S. Newman – Developmental Science, 2025
Children learn language by listening to speech from caregivers around them. However, the type and quantity of speech input that children are exposed to change throughout early childhood in ways that are poorly understood due to the small samples (few participants, limited hours of observation) typically available in developmental psychology. Here…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Speech Communication
