Highlighting: A mechanism relevant for word learning

What we attend to at any moment determines what we learn at that moment, and this also depends on our past learning. This focused conceptual paper concentrates on a single well-documented attention mechanism—highlighting. This phenomenon—well studied in nonlinguistic but not in linguistic contexts—s...

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Main Authors: Hanako eYoshida, Joseph Michael Burling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00262/full