Preschool Children’s Memory for Word Forms Remains Stable Over Several Days, but Gradually Decreases after Six Months

Research on word learning has focused on children’s ability to identify a target object when given the word form after a minimal number of exposures to novel word-object pairings. However, relatively little research has focused on children’s ability to retrieve the word form when given the target ob...

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Main Authors: Katherine Ruth Gordon, Karla K McGregor, Brigitte Waldier, Maura Curran, Rebecca L Gomez, Larissa K Samuelson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01439/full