Biofunctional Mutual Exclusion in Early Word Disambiguation: Affect, Attention, and Novelty

Curiosity and inquiry have driven the studies in early word learning, and just as curiously, positive results support the behavior of mutual exclusivity in early word disambiguation as a psychological behavior. Yet, the behavioral phenomenon also provides solid evidence of embodied cognition, specifically revealing the nature of a lesser understood role of the sensory systems. This role of biofunctional mutual exclusion is nervous system-directed, according to perceptions of the sensory system. Interpreting the results of early word learning in light of dynamic, biologically directed mutual exclusion cognitive pattern supports the role of affect, novelty, and attention as an external response of the nature of this cognitive relationship of disambiguation.