Novel names extend for how long preschool children sample visual information.

ABSTRACT: Known words can guide visual attention, affecting how information is sampled. How do novel words, those that do not provide any top-down information, affect preschoolers' visual sampling in a conceptual task? We proposed that novel names can also change visual sampling by influencing how long children look. We investigated this possibility by analyzing how children sample visual information when they hear a sentence with a novel name versus without a novel name. Children completed a match-to-sample task while their moment-to-moment eye movements were recorded using eye-tracking technology. Our analyses were designed to provide specific information on the properties of visual sampling that novel names may change. Overall, we found that novel words prolonged the duration of each sampling eve

SUBMITTER: Carvalho PF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5805614 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature