Although ever-growing literature has documented that a multisensory environment
influences individuals' learning, there is less agreement as to whether it facilitates or hinders …

Selective attention refers to the ability to focus on goal-relevant information while filtering out
irrelevant information. In a multisensory context, how do people selectively attend to multiple …

Although humans acquire sophisticated and flexible tool-use skills rapidly throughout
childhood, young children and adults still show difficulties using the same object for different …

Numerous studies have found that selective attention affects category learning. However,
previous research did not distinguish between the contribution of focusing and filtering …

When making category decisions, humans sample features following their dynamic
informativeness. Attention optimization models successfully predict these categorization …

Category learning is a crucial aspect of cognition that involves organizing entities into
equivalence classes. Whereas adults tend to focus on category-relevant features, young …

Categories simplify the vast number of entities we encounter into equivalence classes,
serving as a fundamental block of our cognition. This simplification of information supports …

In their natural environments, children usually see several novel objects while they hear the
labels for these objects, making it difficult for them to know exactly which objects these words …

We examined whether selective attention, which is mainly theorized as the ability to focus on
the category-relevant dimension, is a sole construct in understanding category learning. As …

Esta tesis tuvo el objetivo de determinar la relación entre atención selectiva y comprensión
lectora en estudiantes del VI ciclo de educación secundaria de una institución educativa de …