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Perseverant responding in children's picture naming.

Josephine Booth1, Melanie Vitkovitch

  • 1University of East London.

Journal of Child Language
|February 28, 2008
PubMed
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Children are more prone to naming errors with recently shown pictures than adults. Younger children exhibit a higher susceptibility to interference from immediate prior images, impacting lexical representation.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Object naming is a fundamental cognitive process.
  • Previous research indicates interference effects in object naming tasks.
  • Studies have explored age-related differences in cognitive interference.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate age-related differences in picture naming interference in children.
  • To compare interference patterns in young children versus older children.
  • To examine the relationship between recency of naming and naming errors.

Main Methods:

  • Two groups of children (nursery and Year 2) participated.
  • Participants named 30 animal pictures presented sequentially.
  • Errors were recorded, focusing on interference from recently named objects (Lag 1).

Main Results:

  • Picture naming errors were consistently related to previously named objects.
  • Children showed significant interference from very recently named objects (Lag 1).
  • Younger children demonstrated a higher proportion of Lag 1 errors compared to older children.

Conclusions:

  • Children's lexical representations are highly sensitive to immediate prior naming.
  • Developmental differences exist in susceptibility to recency-based interference.
  • Findings inform theories on the activation dynamics of lexical representations in child language development.

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