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Rivière, James; Cordonnier, Aurore; Fouasse, Christie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
How toddlers' attention is distributed in the visual field during a magic trick was examined using three expectation conditions. Results showed that 2.5-year-old children assigned to the condition with major task-relevant information (i.e., a verbal cue to attend to one of the visual targets) (i) outperformed those who were assigned to the…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Attention, Visual Perception, Cues
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Cauvet, Elodie; Limissuri, Rita; Millotte, Severine; Skoruppa, Katrin; Cabrol, Dominique; Christophe, Anne – Language Learning and Development, 2014
In this experiment using the conditioned head-turn procedure, 18-month-old French-learning toddlers were trained to respond to either a target noun ("la balle"/"the ball") or a target verb ("je mange"/"I ea"t). They were then tested on target word recognition in two syntactic contexts: the target word was…
Descriptors: French, Word Recognition, Nouns, Toddlers