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    "pk": 26484,
    "title": "The paradox of relational development: Could language learning be (temporarily)\nharmful?",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Recent studies report a striking decline in children’s ability to\nnotice same-different relations around age 3 (Walker et al.,\n2015). We propose that such a decline results from an object\nfocus related to children’s avid noun-learning. To test this, we\nexamine children’s performance on a classic relational task –\nthe relational match-to-sample task (RMTS). Prior work has\nshown that 4-year-olds can pass this task (Christie & Gentner,\n2014). However, if nominal language induces an object focus,\ntheir performance should be disrupted by a noun-labeling\npretask. In two experiments, 4-year-olds either labeled objects\nor actions in a naming pretask. Then they completed the\nRMTS task. Consistent with the noun-focus explanation, the\nobject-naming group failed the RMTS task, whereas the\naction-naming group and a control group both succeeded.\nThis suggests that nominal language can lead to an object\nfocus, and that this could explain the temporary decline in\nchildren’s relational processing.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Cognitive Development"
        },
        {
            "word": "relational processing"
        },
        {
            "word": "learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "Language"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wx9j64b",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Christian",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hoyos",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northwestern University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ruxue",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Shao",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northwestern University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Dedre",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gentner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Northwestern University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}