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Multiple Sensory-Motor Pathways Lead to Coordinated Visual Attention
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Yu, Chen; Smith, Linda B. – Cognitive Science, 2017
Joint attention has been extensively studied in the developmental literature because of overwhelming evidence that the ability to socially coordinate visual attention to an object is essential to healthy developmental outcomes, including language learning. The goal of this study was to understand the complex system of sensory-motor behaviors that…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Visual Perception, Language Acquisition, Toddlers
The Role of Novelty in Early Word Learning
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Mather, Emily; Plunkett, Kim – Cognitive Science, 2012
What mechanism implements the mutual exclusivity bias to map novel labels to objects without names? Prominent theoretical accounts of mutual exclusivity (e.g., Markman, 1989, 1990) propose that infants are guided by their knowledge of object names. However, the mutual exclusivity constraint could be implemented via monitoring of object novelty…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Toddlers, Bias