A Neurocomputational Account of Taxonomic Responding and Fast Mapping in Early Word Learning

Psychological Review

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-31

  Mayor, Julien ^a   Plunkett, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

early word learning; fast mapping; lexical constraints; taxonomic responding; vocabulary spurt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 74049158319     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018130     Document Type: Article

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