Memory for nonadjacent dependencies in the first year of life and its relation to sleep

Grammar learning requires memory for temporally organised, rule-based patterns in speech. Here, the authors use event-related potentials to show that 6 to 8 month-old infants can form memory of dependencies between nonadjacent elements in sentences of an unknown language, regardless of whether they...

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Main Authors: Manuela Friedrich, Matthias Mölle, Jan Born, Angela D. Friederici
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35558-x