{"pk":26432,"title":"Allocation of attention during auditory word learning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The deployment of selective attention has been studied in\ndepth as a mechanism of visual categorization for decades.\nHowever, little work has investigated how attentional\nmechanisms operate for non-visual domains, and many\nmodels of categorization tacitly presume domain-general\nattention use. In three experiments, we investigated whether\nlearners deploy attention to novel auditory features when\nlearning novel words in a similar fashion to the prevailing\nvisual categorization findings. These studies yielded evidence\nof non-isomorphism, as selective attention in the auditory\ndomain shows high context specificity, in contrast to the wide\ngeneralization of attention in the visual domain.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"selective attention; auditory attention;\ncategorization; category learning; word learning"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xn7d1kn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Keith","middle_name":"S.","last_name":"Apfelbaum","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Ohio State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Vladimir","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sloutsky","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Ohio State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26432/galley/16068/download/"}]}