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What you see is what you learn: Visual attention in statistical word learning

Award Number: R01HD093792
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 11/17/2017
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 10/31/2024

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What you see is what you learn: Visual attention in statistical word learning - PROJECT SUMMARY Individual differences in the quantity and quality of parent talk and individual differences in infant visual attention predict later vocabulary development, which in turn has the cascading consequences of later cognitive development and school achievement. The proposed research studies how infants prior to their first birthday begin to learn object names, and does so in a unique approach, focusing on how visual information from the infant perspective coincide with parent naming and on how infant looking behavior selects the data to be aggregated and how that selected data changes incrementally in statistical learning. Toward this goal, we will collect a corpus of infant-perspective scenes from 8-12-month-old infants as they play with their parent in a toy room and as parents naturally name objects during play. We will analyze the referential ambiguity of the scenes that co-occur with parent naming events, by showing the scenes to infants and tracking their gaze direction in free viewing. We will use the gaze data to quantify ambiguity in terms of the uncertainty, correctness, and informativeness of the scenes as to the intended object referent. We will then construct training sets for cross-situational learning experiments from the collected scenes by manipulating the mix of high and low ambiguity trials. We will test a series of hypotheses about how infants aggregate information to learn multiple object names. Moreover, we will feed the trial-by-trial gaze data of individual infants to models to predict final learning outcomes, with the goal of specifying attentional and memory processes that support learning. Our overarching aim of the project is to show that the infant-perspective scenes co- occurring with early naming events have properties that guide and train infant visual attention and in so doing support the learning of names and their referents through the aggregation of information across multiple naming events.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = -$83,705 )
2025	2022	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	110 INNER CAMPUS DR	AUSTIN	TX	78712	TRAVIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	6	4/23/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$83,705
														Subtotal = -$83,705

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2023	2022	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	110 INNER CAMPUS DR	AUSTIN	TX	78712	TRAVIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	6	9/29/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $346,643 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	110 INNER CAMPUS DR	AUSTIN	TX	78712	TRAVIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	003	6	4/25/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$34,665
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	110 INNER CAMPUS DR MN 13	AUSTIN	TX	78712	TRAVIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	6	10/25/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$311,978
2022	2020	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	110 INNER CAMPUS DR	AUSTIN	TX	78712	TRAVIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	002	4	11/2/2021	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$76,411
2022	2019	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	107 S INDIANA AVE	BLOOMINGTON	IN	47405	MONROE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	2	11/2/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$76,411
														Subtotal = $346,643

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $346,963 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	110 INNER CAMPUS DR MN 13	AUSTIN	TX	78712	TRAVIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	003	5	4/1/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	110 INNER CAMPUS DR MN 13	AUSTIN	TX	78712	TRAVIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	002	5	2/4/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$28,324
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	110 INNER CAMPUS DR MN 13	AUSTIN	TX	78712	TRAVIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	5	12/3/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$318,639
2021	2020	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	110 INNER CAMPUS DR MN 13	AUSTIN	TX	78712	TRAVIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	4	10/13/2020	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$0
														Subtotal = $346,963

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $354,356 )
2020	2020	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	BRYAN HALL 107 S INDIANA AVENUE	BLOOMINGTON	IN	47405	MONROE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	3	2/7/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$35,233
2020	2020	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	110 INNER CAMPUS DR MN 13	AUSTIN	TX	78712	TRAVIS	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	003	4	8/12/2020	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$354,356
2020	2020	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	BRYAN HALL 107 S INDIANA AVENUE	BLOOMINGTON	IN	47405	MONROE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	3	1/7/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$317,089
2020	2020	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	107 S INDIANA AVENUE	BLOOMINGTON	IN	47405	MONROE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	002	3	8/12/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$352,322
														Subtotal = $354,356

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $352,606 )
2019	2019	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	BRYAN HALL 107 S INDIANA AVENUE	BLOOMINGTON	IN	47405	MONROE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	2	11/29/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$352,606
														Subtotal = $352,606

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $339,797 )
2018	2018	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	BRYAN HALL 107 S INDIANA AVENUE	BLOOMINGTON	IN	47405	MONROE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	11/17/2017	NEW	$339,797
														Subtotal = $339,797

Grand Total All Awards = $1,656,660

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What you see is what you learn: Visual attention in statistical word learning

Award Number: R01HD093792

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 11/17/2017

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 10/31/2024

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