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The role of colour labels in mediating toddler visual attention

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Toddlers, children and adults will spontaneously attend to a semantically- or perceptually-related object when a named target is absent from the visual scene: Upon hearing “strawberry”, they will orient to a red plate rather than a yellow one. We examine the role that knowledge of feature labels plays in mediating visual attention to unnamed features. For example, does knowing the word “red”, facilitate attending to red objects, though the label is not uttered? We show that toddlers systemati...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.008

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
Oxford college:
St Hugh's College
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-0216-7480
Publisher:
Elsevier Publisher's website
Journal:
Cognition Journal website
Volume:
186
Pages:
159-170
Publication date:
2019-02-18
Acceptance date:
2019-01-10
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ISSN:
0010-0277
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pubs:963736
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uuid:69d0ebf4-2296-4d4b-850c-ca79a0f5ed66
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pubs:963736
Source identifiers:
963736
Deposit date:
2019-01-18

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