title: How semantic category modulates preschool children's visual memory.
abstract: The dynamic interplay between perception and memory has been explored in preschool children by presenting filtered stimuli regarding animals and artifacts. The identification of filtered images was markedly influenced by both prior exposure and the semantic nature of the stimuli. The identification of animals required less physical information than artifacts did. Our results corroborate the notion that the human attention system evolves to reliably develop definite category-specific selection criteria by which living entities are monitored in different ways.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Neurosciences, Psychology, Drug Research , Child Health University of Florence , Florence , Italy.
authors.forename: Fiorenza
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Giganti
authors.affiliation: a Department of Neurosciences, Psychology, Drug Research , Child Health University of Florence , Florence , Italy.|b Pediatric Psychology Service , Children's Hospital A. Meyer-University of Florence , Florence , Italy.
authors.forename: Maria Pia
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Viggiano
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012660:Semantics; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Childhood; Priming; Semantic category; Spatial frequency; Visual memory