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Do children (and adults) benefit from a prediction error boost in one-shot word learning?
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Gambi, Chiara, Lelonkiewicz, Jaroslaw R. and Crepaldi, Davide (2024) Do children (and adults) benefit from a prediction error boost in one-shot word learning? Journal of Cognition, 7 (1). 13. doi:10.5334/joc.342 ISSN 2514-4820.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.342
Abstract
Influential theories and computational models suggest error-based learning plays an important role in language acquisition: Children learn new words by generating predictions about upcoming utterances and revising those predictions when they are erroneous. Critically, revising stronger (rather than weaker) predictions should further enhance learning. Although previously demonstrated in adults, such prediction error boost has not been conclusively shown in children. To close this gap, we tested 107 participants between the ages of 5 and 10. We found little evidence that word learning in this age group benefits from a prediction error boost. Moreover, we also failed to replicate previous evidence for such an effect in adults. Based on a detailed task analysis, we suggest the variation in adult findings may be partly explained by differences in encoding strategies and that, relatedly, the protracted development of the episodic memory system might explain why children do not experience robust benefits from having stronger (rather than weaker) predictions disconfirmed.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology L Education > LB Theory and practice of education P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language acquisition, Language awareness in children, Children -- Language , Verbal ability in children, Learning, Psychology of, Cognition in children | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Cognition | ||||||||||||
Publisher: | Ubiquity Press | ||||||||||||
ISSN: | 2514-4820 | ||||||||||||
Official Date: | 12 January 2024 | ||||||||||||
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Volume: | 7 | ||||||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||||||
Article Number: | 13 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.5334/joc.342 | ||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 January 2024 | ||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 January 2024 | ||||||||||||
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