Word learning, phonological short-term memory, phonotactic probability and long-term memory: Towards an integrated framework

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1536, 2009, Pages 3755-3771

  Gupta, Prahlad ^a   Tisdale, Jamie ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Integrative framework; Phonological learning; Phonological short term memory; Short term and long term memory interactions; Word learning

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

EID: 73949105770     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0132     Document Type: Article

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