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Prediction error boosts retention of novel words in adults but not in children
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Gambi, Chiara, Pickering, Martin J. and Rabagliati, Hugh (2021) Prediction error boosts retention of novel words in adults but not in children. Cognition, 211 . 104650. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104650 ISSN 0010-0277. [ (✓) hoa:10545 ]
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104650
Abstract
How do we update our linguistic knowledge? In seven experiments, we asked whether error-driven learning can explain under what circumstances adults and children are more likely to store and retain a new word meaning. Participants were exposed to novel object labels in the context of more or less constraining sentences or visual contexts. Both two-to-four-year-olds (Mage = 38 months) and adults were strongly affected by expectations based on sentence constraint when choosing the referent of a new label. In addition, adults formed stronger memory traces for novel words that violated a stronger prior expectation. However, preschoolers' memory was unaffected by the strength of their prior expectations. We conclude that the encoding of new word-object associations in memory is affected by prediction error in adults, but not in preschoolers.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cognition | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0010-0277 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | June 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 211 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 104650 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104650 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Is Part Of: | 1 |
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