Предикторы индивидуальных различий в категориальном научении у детей 6–10 лет

Психологические исследования: электронный научный журнал. 2025. Т. 18. № 101. Статья 5.

Ляшенко А. К., Бачурина В. А., Tuzhilina Y., Котова Т. Н., Kotov A. A., Арсалиду М.

This study examines the relationship between individual differences in categorical learning and two cognitive factors – mental attention capacity and verbal flexibility – in primary school students (grades 1–3, N = 60). Age-related differences were observed across all measures: older children demonstrated higher categorical learning performance, greater attention capacity, and increased verbal flexibility. However, when controlling for age, only the positive association between categorical learning performance and mental attention capacity remained statistically significant. To further investigate the mechanisms underlying categorical learning, an eye- tracking analysis was conducted to compare attention allocation strategies between children and adults (N = 30). The findings indicated that children tended to employ a distributed attention strategy, whereas adults predominantly used a selective attention strategy during the learning task. The findings have implications for the development of predictive models of learning based on stable individual characteristics of cognitive functioning.

Keywords: рабочая память, индивидуальные различия, категориальное научение

Publication based on the results of: Cognitive processes in the information environment: phenomena and explanatory models (2025)