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About the Project

This project focuses on the interaction of words and visual stimuli in early name learning. Typically infants demonstrate a preference for novel stimuli. However, the presence of a word slows infants’ formation of a novelty preference in the context of two visual stimuli. Likewise the mere visual presence of a familiar object that has been linked to a word can exert an attractive force on infant attention and reduce novelty biases.

We seek to understand these complex interactions between words and attention and their implications for early word learning via empirical work with infants and computational simulations with a dynamic neural field model.

Funding Notes

The Studentships cover full tuition fees (Home/EU or Overseas), a tax-free maintenance grant (£14,553 for 2017 entry), and a research training support grant.

Length of studentship (funded period): 3 years.

NB. 3 year studentships have a (non-funded) 1 year ‘registration only’ period.

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SAMUELSONU17PSY The Dynamics of Visual Attention and Word Learning

University of East Anglia School of Psychology