Knowledge as process: contextually-cued attention and early word learning.
Learning depends on attention. The processes that cue attention in the moment dynamically integrate learned regularities and immediate contextual cues. This paper reviews the extensive literature on cued attention and attentional learning in the adult literature and proposes that these fundamental processes are likely significant mechanisms of change in cognitive development. The value of this idea is illustrated using phenomena in children novel word learning.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 1101 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. smith4@indiana.edu
Linda B
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Smith
Eliana
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Colunga
Hanako
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Yoshida
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D007721:Knowledge of Results, Psychological; D007804:Language Development; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D014706:Verbal Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary