News Finding: This turns it around because it suggests that language may also make working memory more effective."
Paper Finding: In conclusion, the present results document for the first time a role for object names in directing visual attention in young children in a visual search task.
News Context: "This study changes the causal arrow a little bit. This turns it around because it suggests that language may also make working memory more effective." "If you don't know where to look, chances are you don't learn anything.
Paper Context: The present results -by implicating a role for words in the quality of visual working memory representations -may provide new paths for understanding the development and individual differences in working memory processes. In conclusion, the present results document for the first time a role for object names in directing visual attention in young children in a visual search task. The results also document visual search processes in 3-yearolds that include a dissociation of the effects of labels and target-distractor discriminability, with the labels affecting the intercept of the search function but not its slope and discriminability affecting the slope but not the intercept.