Looking in the Wrong Direction Correlates With More Accurate Word Learning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 367-380

  Fitneva, Stanka A ^a   Christiansen, Morten H ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fast mapping; Initial accuracy; Statistical learning; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 79751499418     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01156.x     Document Type: Article

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