The role of word learning in the development of dimensional attention

Previous work shows that young children focus on holistic (or overall) similarity and older children focus on dimensional similarity (selectively attending to one property to the exclusion of others). Research on early word learning, however, suggests that process of learning new words trains attent...

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Main Author: Perry, Lynn Krieg
Other Authors: Samuelson, Larissa K.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2012
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3368
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3313&context=etd