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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018

Effects of Linguistic Labels on Visual Attention in Children and Young Adults.

Wesley R Barnhart, Samuel Rivera, Christopher W Robinson

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Mind Melds: Verbal Labels Induce Greater Representational Alignment.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2024
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  5. Holistic and Analytic Attention in Infancy: A Cross-Cultural Study in Sweden and Zimbabwe.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Wesley R BarnhartID/ASD Research Group, Nisonger Center, University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
Samuel RiveraDepartment of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
Christopher W RobinsonDepartment of Psychology, The Ohio State University at Newark, Newark, OH, United States.
The Ohio State University · USThe Ohio State University Newark · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effects of linguistic labels on learning outcomes are well-established; however, developmental research examining possible mechanisms underlying these effects have provided mixed results. We used a novel paradigm where 8-year-olds and adults were simultaneously trained on three sparse categories (categories with many irrelevant or unique features and a single rule defining feature). Category members were either associated with the same label, different labels, or no labels (silent baseline). Similar to infant paradigms, participants passively viewed individual exemplars and we examined fixations to category relevant features across training. While it is well established that adults can optimize their attention in forced-choice categorization tasks without linguistic input, the present findings provide support for label induced attention optimization: simply hearing the same label associated with different exemplars was associated with increased attention to category relevant features over time, and participants continued to focus on these features on a subsequent recognition task. Participants also viewed images longer and made more fixations when images were paired with unique labels. These findings provide support for the claim that labels may facilitate categorization by directing attention to category relevant features.

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developmenteye trackinglinguistic labelsvisual attention

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PMID29618996
PMCPMC5871708
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