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Sekine, Kazuki – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
This study longitudinally investigated developmental changes in the frame of reference used by children in their gestures and speech. Fifteen children, between 4 and 6 years of age, were asked once a year to describe their route home from their nursery school. When the children were 4 years old, they tended to produce gestures that directly and…
Descriptors: Nursery Schools, Cognitive Processes, Nonverbal Communication, Longitudinal Studies
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Yee, Eiling; Sedivy, Julie C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Two experiments explore the activation of semantic information during spoken word recognition. Experiment 1 shows that as the name of an object unfolds (e.g., lock), eye movements are drawn to pictorial representations of both the named object and semantically related objects (e.g., key). Experiment 2 shows that objects semantically related to an…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Semantics, Language Research