Journal
JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE
Volume 49, Issue 3, Pages 503-521Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000921000192
Keywords
emotion; word learning; language; broader autism phenotype
Funding
- UQ Vice Chancellor's Fellowship
- ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language [CE140100041]
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The study found that the influence of emotion on attention during word learning in 7-9 year-old children varies depending on their level of autism-like traits, but it does not affect word learning outcomes.
Emotion can influence various cognitive processes. Communication with children often involves exaggerated emotional expressions and emotive language. Children with autism spectrum disorder often show a reduced tendency to attend to emotional information. Typically developing children aged 7 to 9 years who varied in their level of autism-like traits learned the nonsense word names of nine novel toys, which were presented with either happy, fearful, or neutral emotional cues. Emotional cues had no influence on word recognition or recall performance. Eye-tracking data showed differences in visual attention depending on the type of emotional cues and level of autism-like traits. The findings suggest that the influence of emotion on attention during word learning differs according to whether the children have lower or higher levels of autism-like traits, but this influence does not affect word learning outcomes.
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