When It Hurts (and Helps) to Try: The Role of Effort in Language Learning
Compared to children, adults are bad at learning language. This is counterintuitive; adults outperform children on most measures of cognition, especially those that involve effort (which continue to mature into early adulthood). The present study asks whether these mature effortful abilities interfe...
Main Authors: | Finn, Amy Sue, Lee, Taraz, Kraus, Allison, Hudson Kam, Carla L. |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89237 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7717-3562 |
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