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Seeing the forest but naming the trees: An object-over-place bias in learning noun labels

2023-04-14

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<p>Objects and places are foundational spatial domains represented in human symbolic expressions, like drawings, which show a prioritization of depicting small-scale object shape information over the large-scale navigable place information in which objects are situated. Is there a similar object-over-place bias in language? Across six experiments, adults and 3- to 4-year-old children were asked either to extend a...

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Literature Corpus work: 7ac03884-bf4e-5ed3-831a-8980c8baf134
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/vna3d

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