Toddlers' language-mediated visual search: They need not have the words for it

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1672-1682

  Johnson, Elizabeth K ^a   McQueen, James M ^b,c,d   Huettig, Falk ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colour; Conceptual development; Language development; Lexical processing; Toddler word recognition; Visual attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 80052494471     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2011.594165     Document Type: Article

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