Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood
Word-object and action-object learning in children aged 30 to 48 months appears to develop at a similar time scale and adheres to similar attentional constraints. However, children below 36 months show different patterns of learning word-object and action-object associations when this information is...
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| author | Sarah Eiteljoerge Birgit Elsner Nivedita Mani |
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| description | Word-object and action-object learning in children aged 30 to 48 months appears to develop at a similar time scale and adheres to similar attentional constraints. However, children below 36 months show different patterns of learning word-object and action-object associations when this information is presented in a bimodal context (Eiteljoerge et al., 2019b). Here, we investigated 12- and 24-month-olds’ word-object and action-object learning when this information is presented in a unimodal context. Forty 12- and 24-month-olds were presented with two novel objects that were either first associated with a novel label (word learning task) and then later with a novel action (action learning task) or vice versa. In subsequent yoked test phases, children either heard one of the novel labels or saw a hand performing one of the actions presented with the two objects on screen while we measured their target looking. Generalized linear mixed models indicate that 12-month-olds learned action-object associations but not word-object associations and 24-month-olds learned neither word- nor action-object associations. These results extend previous findings (Eiteljoerge et al., 2019b) and, together, suggest that children appear to learn action-object associations early in development while struggling with learning word-object associations in certain contexts until 2 years of age. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7bb53103ba6f4c17817a2e6cec19467f2024-03-19T09:50:52ZengCambridge University PressLanguage and Cognition1866-98081866-985911810.1017/langcog.2024.7Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhoodSarah Eiteljoerge0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6141-7924Birgit Elsner1Nivedita Mani2Psychology of Language, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Leibniz ScienceCampus “Primate Cognition”, Göttingen, GermanyDevelopmental Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, GermanyPsychology of Language, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Leibniz ScienceCampus “Primate Cognition”, Göttingen, GermanyWord-object and action-object learning in children aged 30 to 48 months appears to develop at a similar time scale and adheres to similar attentional constraints. However, children below 36 months show different patterns of learning word-object and action-object associations when this information is presented in a bimodal context (Eiteljoerge et al., 2019b). Here, we investigated 12- and 24-month-olds’ word-object and action-object learning when this information is presented in a unimodal context. Forty 12- and 24-month-olds were presented with two novel objects that were either first associated with a novel label (word learning task) and then later with a novel action (action learning task) or vice versa. In subsequent yoked test phases, children either heard one of the novel labels or saw a hand performing one of the actions presented with the two objects on screen while we measured their target looking. Generalized linear mixed models indicate that 12-month-olds learned action-object associations but not word-object associations and 24-month-olds learned neither word- nor action-object associations. These results extend previous findings (Eiteljoerge et al., 2019b) and, together, suggest that children appear to learn action-object associations early in development while struggling with learning word-object associations in certain contexts until 2 years of age.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1866980824000073/type/journal_articleaction learningtemporal synchronyunimodal learningword learning |
| spellingShingle | Sarah Eiteljoerge Birgit Elsner Nivedita Mani Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood Language and Cognition action learning temporal synchrony unimodal learning word learning |
| title | Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood |
| title_full | Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood |
| title_fullStr | Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood |
| title_full_unstemmed | Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood |
| title_short | Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood |
| title_sort | word object and action object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood |
| topic | action learning temporal synchrony unimodal learning word learning |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1866980824000073/type/journal_article |
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