Goodnight book: Sleep consolidation improves word learning via storybooks

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Williams, Sophie E ^a   Horst, Jessica S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Memory consolidation; Shared storybook reading; Sleep; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897931799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00184     Document Type: Article

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