Knowledge as Process: Contextually Cued Attention and Early Word Learning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1287-1314

  Smith, Linda B ^a   Colunga, Eliana ^b   Yoshida, Hanako ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cued attention; Development; Noun learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REINFORCEMENT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MEMORY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78649979836     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01130.x     Document Type: Article

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