Hanako Yoshida

Biographic Data

ID3774401
NAMEHanako Yoshida
GIVEN NAMESHanako
FAMILY NAMEYoshida
SIGNATUREYOSHIDA H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Houston
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Early development of saliency-driven attention through object manipulation

    Open AccessLichao Sun, David J Francis et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2024

    In the first years of life, infants progressively develop attention selection skills to gather information from visually clustered environments. As young as newborns, infants are sensitive to the distinguished differences in color, orientation, and luminance, which are the components of visual saliency. However, we know little about how saliency-driven attention emerges and develops socially through everyday free-viewing experiences. The present …

  • Comparing apples to manzanas and oranges to naranjas: A new measure of English‐Spanish vocabulary for dual language learners

    Open AccessCatherine S Tamis‐lemonda, George Kachergis et al.ARTICLEInfancy2024

    The valid assessment of vocabulary development in dual‐language‐learning infants is critical to developmental science. We developed the Dual Language Learners English‐Spanish (DLL‐ES) Inventories to measure vocabularies of U.S. English‐Spanish DLLs. The inventories provide translation equivalents for all Spanish and English items on Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) short forms; extended inventories based on CDI long forms; and Spanish la…

  • Why the parent's gaze is so powerful in organizing the infant's gaze: The relationship between parental referential cues and infant object looking

    Open AccessLichao Sun, Hanako YoshidaARTICLEInfancy2022

    Parental scaffolding such as looking at and showing objects has long been considered to be helpful for early attention and language development. However, relatively little is known about how parental social multimodal cues work alone or together in guiding an infant's attention toward the referent items. The present study aims to document the dynamics of social referential input during an interactive play session and specify the different types o…

  • Parents’ gesture adaptations to children with autism spectrum disorder

    Open AccessHanako Yoshida, Paul T Cirino et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2020

    The present study focused on parents’ social cue use in relation to young children's attention. Participants were ten parent–child dyads; all children were 36 to 60 months old and were either typically developing (TD) or were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children wore a head-mounted camera that recorded the proximate child view while their parent played with them. The study compared the following between the TD and ASD groups: (…

  • Gaze as a Window to the Process of Novel Adjective Mapping

    Open AccessHanako Yoshida, Aakash Patel et al.ARTICLELanguages2019References: 66

    This study evaluated two explanations for how learning of novel adjectives is facilitated when all the objects are from the same category (e.g., exemplar and testing objects are all CUPS) and the object category is a known to the children. One explanation (the category knowledge account) focuses on early knowledge of syntax-meaning correspondence, and another (the attentional account) focuses on the role of repeated perceptual properties. The fir…

  • If it’s red, it’s not Vap: How competition among words may benefit early word learning

    Open AccessHanako Yoshida, Rima HananiaARTICLEFirst Language2013

    One of the most prominent issues in early cognitive and linguistic development concerns how children figure out meanings of words from hearing them in context, since in many contexts there are multiple words and multiple potential referents for those words. Recent findings concerning on-line sentence comprehension suggest that, within the conversational context, potential referents compete for mappings to words. Three experiments examined whether…

  • What's in View for Toddlers? Using a Head Camera to Study Visual Experience

    Open AccessHanako Yoshida, Linda B SmithARTICLEInfancy2008

    This article reports 2 experiments using a new method to study 18‐to 24‐month‐olds' visual experiences as they interact with objects. Experiment 1 presents evidence on the coupling of head and eye movements and thus the validity of the head camera view of the infant's visual field in the geometry of the task context. Experiment 2 demonstrates the use of this method in the naturalistic context of toy play with a parent. The results point to the em…