News Finding: Vales said the use of language can change how people inspect the world around them.
Paper Finding: In both cases, the objects were composed of multiple line elements and thus might be considered as instances of a conjunctive search task, as finding the target depends on attending to multiple line elements in the right configuration for the category-relevant shape (e.g.
News Context: The study, she said , "is the first clear demonstration of the impact of words on the way children navigate the visual world and is a first step toward understanding the way language influences visual attention, raising new testable hypotheses about the process." Vales said the use of language can change how people inspect the world around them. advertisement
  
  "We also know that language will change the way people perform in a lot of different laboratory tasks," she said.
Paper Context: But if category name cues attention to shape because of its association with category-relevant shape properties, hearing the name of the target object should also benefit attention to category-specific shape (and not just to shape over color). In both cases, the objects were composed of multiple line elements and thus might be considered as instances of a conjunctive search task, as finding the target depends on attending to multiple line elements in the right configuration for the category-relevant shape (e.g. While the Low Discriminability condition clearly requires attending to the configural properties of multiple elements to discriminate between the distractors and the target, the High Discriminability might not as the targets and distractors could be discriminated on a single shape feature (e.g.