The role of memory consolidation in generalisation of new linguistic information

Cognition

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-112

  Tamminen, Jakke ^a   Davis, Matthew H ^b   Merkx, Marjolein ^a   Rastle, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Generalisation; Language learning; Memory consolidation; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINEAR MODELS; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865283285     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.06.014     Document Type: Article

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