Erin L. Dysart
Young children's referent selection is guided by novelty for both words and actions
Dysart, Erin L.; Mather, Emily; Riggs, Kevin J.
Authors
Dr Emily Mather Emily.Mather@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer in Psychology
Professor Kevin Riggs K.Riggs@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Psychology
Abstract
Young children are biased to select novel, name-unknown objects as referents of novel labels (e.g., Markman, 1990) and similarly favour novel, action-unknown objects as referents of novel actions (Riggs, Mather, Hyde & Simpson, 2015). What process underlies these common behaviors? In the case of word learning, children may be driven by a novelty bias favouring novel objects as referents (Horst, Samuelson, Kucker & McMurray, 2011). Our study investigates this bias further by investigating whether novelty also affects children’s selection of novel objects when a new action is given. In a pre-exposure session, 40, three- and four-year-olds were shown eight novel objects for one minute. In subsequent referent selection trials children were shown two pre-exposed and one super-novel object and heard either a novel name or saw a novel action. The super-novel object was selected significantly more that the pre-exposed objects on both word and action trials. Our data add to the growing literature suggesting that an endogenous attentional bias to novelty plays a role in children’s referent selection and demonstrates further parallels between word and action learning.
Citation
Dysart, E. L., Mather, E., & Riggs, K. J. (2016). Young children's referent selection is guided by novelty for both words and actions. Journal of experimental child psychology, 146, 231-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.01.003
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 1, 2016 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 17, 2016 |
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Jan 18, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 27, 2022 |
Journal | Journal of experimental child psychology |
Print ISSN | 0022-0965 |
Electronic ISSN | 1096-0457 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 146 |
Pages | 231-237 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.01.003 |
Keywords | Referent selection, Novelty, Action-object mapping, Word-object mapping, Domain-general cognition, Word learning |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/384171 |
Publisher URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022096516000047 |
Additional Information | Authors' accepted manuscript of article published in: Journal of experimental child psychology, 2016, v.146 |
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