Word learning in children represents a fundamental aspect of cognitive development and language acquisition. This area of research explores how young learners overcome the ambiguous nature of their ...

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One of the most amazing phenomena in young children learning a language is how well and how fast they learn new words. There comes a time in their development when we, adults, can hardly keep up with ...

There is a lot that 19-month-old children can't do: They can't tie their shoes or get their mittens on the correct hands. But they can use words they do know to learn new ones.

This word has appeared in 19 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network This word has appeared in 27 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can ...

ERPs, measured from the scalp, provide a nearly continuous sampling of the brain's electrical activity 1. We focused on learning-related changes to the N400 component, a negative wave that peaks at ...