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Knowledge as Process: Contextually Cued Attention and Early Word Learning

Year: 2010

Type: review

Abstract: Learning depends on attention. The processes that cue attention in the moment dynamically integrate learned regularities and immediate contextual cues. This paper reviews the extensive literature on cued attention and attentional learning in the adult literature and proposes that these fundamental processes are likely significant mechanisms of change in cognitive development. The value of this idea is illustrated using phenomena in children novel word learning.

Source: Cognitive Science

DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01130.x

Authors: Linda B. Smith, Eliana Colunga, Hanako Yoshida

Institutions: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University, University of Colorado System, University of Colorado Denver, University of Houston

Language: English

Topic: Language Development and Disorders

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

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

Awards: G111572340, The Shape Bias in Early Word Learning, A cross-linguistic study of nominal category formation, G3987364878, Basic mechanisms of language's effect on attention and learning