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Linguistic Cues Enhance the Learning of Perceptual Cues

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: When language is correlated with regularities in the world, does it enhance the learning of these regularities? This question lies at the core of both notions of linguistic bootstrapping in children and the Whorfian hypothesis. Support for an affirmative answer is provided in an artificial-noun-learning task in which 2-year-old children were taught to distinguish categories of solid and nonsolid things with and without supporting correlated linguistic cues.

Source: Psychological Science

DOI: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.00787.x

Authors: Hanako Yoshida, Linda B. Smith

Institutions: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University

Language: English

Topic: Categorization, perception, and language

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute of Mental Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development