Two-year-olds consolidate verb meanings during a nap.

ABSTRACT: Successful word learning requires establishing an initial representation that is sufficiently robust to be retained in memory. Sleep has profound advantages for memory consolidation, but evidence concerning the effects of sleep in young children's word learning is slim and focuses almost exclusively on learning nouns. Verbs are representationally more complex and are often learned from non-concurrent linguistic and observational information (e.g., hearing "let's pour your milk" before the pouring event takes place). What remains unknown is whether initial representations built this way are robust enough to sustain a delay, and how these representations are affected by sleep. We presented two-year-olds with non-concurrent linguistic and observational information about novel verbs and immedi

SUBMITTER: He AX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9034726 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature