Children’s Use of Morphological Cues in Real-Time Event Representation
| Autor: | Peng Zhou, Weiyi Ma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Linguistics and Language Eye Movements genetic structures Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Psycholinguistics Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Age groups Reaction Time Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child General Psychology Event (probability theory) 05 social sciences Representation (systemics) Eye movement Cognition Child Preschool Time course Speech Perception Visual Perception Eye tracking Female Cues Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 47:241-260 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6555 0090-6905 |
| Popis: | The present study investigated whether and how fast young children can use information encoded in morphological markers during real-time event representation. Using the visual world paradigm, we tested 35 adults, 34 5-year-olds and 33 3-year-olds. The results showed that the adults, the 5-year-olds and the 3-year-olds all exhibited eye gaze patterns that reflected a rapid use of morphological cues during real-time event representation. There was no difference in the time course of the eye gaze patterns of the 5-year-olds and those of the adults, indicating that 5-year-old children already have adult-like processing abilities and they can use morphological cues as effectively as adults during real-time event representation. However, a 400 ms delay was observed in the eye gaze patterns by the 3-year-olds as compared to the 5-year-olds and the adults. We proposed that the observed difference might reflect a difference in the general cognitive processing abilities between the three age groups. Due to the immature cognitive processing abilities of 3-year-olds, it took longer for them to progress their eye movements to the target pictures as compared to older children and adults. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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