Embodied Attention and Word Learning by Toddlers

Autor/inn/en	Yu, Chen; Smith, Linda B.
Titel	Embodied Attention and Word Learning by Toddlers
Quelle	In: Cognition, 125 (2012) 2, S.244-262 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2012.06.016
Schlagwörter	Infants; Photography; Parent Role; Toddlers; Visual Stimuli; Learning; Word Recognition; Adults; Tests; Attention; Theories; Interaction; Correlation; Social Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Fotografie; Parental role; Elternrolle; Infants; Lernen; Worterkennung; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Aufmerksamkeit; Theory; Theorie; Interaktion; Korrelation; Soziale Entwicklung
Abstract	Many theories of early word learning begin with the uncertainty inherent to learning a word from its co-occurrence with a visual scene. However, the relevant visual scene for infant word learning is neither from the adult theorist's view nor the mature partner's view, but is rather from the learner's personal view. Here we show that when 18-month old infants interacted with objects in play with their parents, they created moments in which a single object was visually dominant. If parents named the object during these moments of bottom-up selectivity, later forced-choice tests showed that infants learned the name, but did not when naming occurred during a less visually selective moment. The momentary visual input for parents and toddlers was captured via head cameras placed low on each participant's forehead as parents played with and named objects for their infant. Frame-by-frame analyses of the head camera images at and around naming moments were conducted to determine the visual properties at input that were associated with learning. The analyses indicated that learning occurred when bottom-up visual information was clean and uncluttered. The sensory-motor behaviors of infants and parents were also analyzed to determine how their actions on the objects may have created these optimal visual moments for learning. The results are discussed with respect to early word learning, embodied attention, and the social role of parents in early word learning. (Contains 1 table and 11 figures.) (As Provided).
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