Highlighting in Early Childhood: Learning Biases through Attentional Shifting

Autor/inn/en	Burling, Joseph M.; Yoshida, Hanako
Titel	Highlighting in Early Childhood: Learning Biases through Attentional Shifting
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 41 (2017), S.96-119 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0364-0213
DOI	10.1111/cogs.12408
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Young Children; Learning Processes; Bias; Attention Control; Cues; Memory; Experiments; Visual Stimuli; Age Differences; Robustness (Statistics); Validity; Language Acquisition; Cognitive Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Frühe Kindheit; Learning process; Lernprozess; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Stichwort; Gedächtnis; Erprobung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Widerstandsfähigkeit; Gültigkeit; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Kognitive Entwicklung
Abstract	The literature on human and animal learning suggests that individuals attend to and act on cues differently based on the order in which they were learned. Recent studies have proposed that one specific type of learning outcome, the highlighting effect, can serve as a framework for understanding a number of early cognitive milestones. However, little is known how this learning effect itself emerges among children, whose memory and attention are much more limited compared to adults. Two experiments were conducted using different versions of the general highlighting paradigm: Experiment 1 tested 3 to 6 year olds with a newly developed image-based version of the paradigm, which was designed specifically to test young children. Experiment 2 tested the validity of an image-based implementation of the highlighting paradigm with adult participants. The results from Experiment 1 provide evidence for the highlighting effect among children 3-6 years old, and they suggest age-related differences in dividing attention among multiple cues during learning. Experiment 2 replicated results from previous studies by showing robust biases for both image-based and text-based versions of the highlighting task. This study suggests that sensitivity to learning order emerges early through the process of cued attention, and the role of the highlighting effect in early language learning is discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01