Abstract
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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 698-710 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Child development |
Volume | 89 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 The Authors. Child Development © 2017 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.