Modeling the Effects of Formal Literacy Training on Language Mediated Visual Attention

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3420-3425

  Smith, Alastair C ^a   Monaghan, Padraic ^b   Huettig, Falk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectionist Modeling; Literacy; The Visual World Paradigm; Visual Attention

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MODELING LANGUAGES; NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CONNECTIONIST MODELS; EYE-GAZE; LITERACY; LOW LITERATES; SPEECH SIGNALS; TARGET WORDS; THE VISUAL WORLD PARADIGM; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL DISPLAY; VISUAL WORLD;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84939219845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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