Learning in context: Linguistic and attentional constraints on children's color term learning

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 275-300

  O'Hanlon, Catherine G ^a   Roberson, Debi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Color categorization; Color terms; Linguistic contrast; Mutual exclusivity; Perceptual salience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33746021687     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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