News Finding: The words you know are a driving force behind attention.
Paper Finding: The principal effect of labels may be that they shortcut visual learning from repeated presentations.
News Context: "If you don't know where to look, chances are you don't learn anything. The words you know are a driving force behind attention. "Our results suggest that language has huge effects, not just on talking, but on attention -- which can determine how children learn, how much they learn and how well they learn," Vales said.
Paper Context: If repetitions of the visual target lead, more slowly, to robust representation of the target, then search times in the Silent condition should improve from first to second half. The principal effect of labels may be that they shortcut visual learning from repeated presentations. Ten additional children were recruited but not included in the final sample due to refusal to participate in the study (N = 5), selecting a non-target object on most test trials and thereby not meeting the criterion of at least two correct responses per distractor set size (N = 3), not finishing the familiarization phase (N = 1) and experimenter error (N = 1).