Learning to Individuate: The Specificity of Labels Differentially Impacts Infant Visual Attention.

• Autores: Charisse B. Pickron, Arjun Iyer, Eswen Fava, Lisa S. Scott
• Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 89, Nº. 3, 2018, págs. 698-710
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study examined differences in visual attention as a function of label learning from 6 to 9 months of age. Before and after 3 months of parent-directed storybook training with computer-generated novel objects, event-related potentials and visual fixations were recorded while infants viewed trained and untrained images (n = 23). Relative to a pretraining, a no-training control group (n = 11), and to infants trained with category-level labels (e.g., all labeled "Hitchel"), infants trained with individual-level labels (e.g., "Boris," "Jamar") displayed increased visual attention and neural differentiation of objects after training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]