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ArticleCognitive science2017

Moving Word Learning to a Novel Space: A Dynamic Systems View of Referent Selection and Retention.

Larissa K Samuelson, Sarah C Kucker, John P Spencer

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Article in Cognitive science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. The Limits of Infants' Early Word Learning.Language learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development · 2020
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  8. What does it take to learn a word?Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2017
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  10. Selective Attention in Early Word Learning: An Eye-Tracking Study on Viewing Naturalistic Egocentric Scenes.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Larissa K SamuelsonSchool of Psychology, University of East Anglia.
Sarah C KuckerThe Callier Center for Communication Disorders, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas.
John P SpencerSchool of Psychology, University of East Anglia.

Funding

The Dynamics of Visual Attention and Word LearningR01HD045713 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI SAMUELSON, LARISSA K · 2004 to 2019
$3.6M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD045713
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Theories of cognitive development must address both the issue of how children bring their knowledge to bear on behavior in-the-moment, and how knowledge changes over time. We argue that seeking answers to these questions requires an appreciation of the dynamic nature of the developing system in its full, reciprocal complexity. We illustrate this dynamic complexity with results from two lines of research on early word learning. The first demonstrates how the child's active engagement with objects and people supports referent selection via memories for what objects were previously seen in a cued location. The second set of results highlights changes in the role of novelty and attentional processes in referent selection and retention as children's knowledge of words and objects grows. Together this work suggests that understanding systems for perception, action, attention, and memory, and their complex interaction, is critical to understand word learning. We review recent literature that highlights the complex interactions between these processes in cognitive development and point to critical issues for future work.

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Language DevelopmentChild DevelopmentFemaleHumansInfantMaleVerbal LearningVocabularyAttentionDynamic Field TheoryDynamic systemsFast mappingReferent selectionSpatial memoryWord learning

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PMID27127009
PMCPMC5086318

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