News Finding: "What we've shown is that in 3-year-old children, words activate memories that then rapidly deploy attention and lead children to find the relevant object in a cluttered array," said Smith, Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
Paper Finding: Analyses of accuracy yielded a significant main effect of Labeling [F(1, 60) = 7.35, p = .009], with accuracy higher in the Label condition, and a main effect of Discriminability [F (1, 60) = 4.67, p = .03], with accuracy higher in the High Discriminability condition.
News Context: "If the name of the target object was also said, the children were much faster at finding it and less distracted by the other objects in the scene," Vales, a graduate student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, said in a recent statement. "What we've shown is that in 3-year-old children, words activate memories that then rapidly deploy attention and lead children to find the relevant object in a cluttered array," said Smith, Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. "Words call up an idea that is more robust than an image and to which we more rapidly respond.
Paper Context: Accuracy was above 80% for all conditions (see Table 1 for accuracy per condition). Analyses of accuracy yielded a significant main effect of Labeling [F(1, 60) = 7.35, p = .009], with accuracy higher in the Label condition, and a main effect of Discriminability [F (1, 60) = 4.67, p = .03], with accuracy higher in the High Discriminability condition. There was an interaction between Labeling and Discriminability on accuracy [F(1, 60) = 4.34, p = .04], as the difference in accuracy between the two labeling conditions was larger for the Low Discriminability condition.