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| Title |
Generalization of word meanings during infant sleep
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| Published in |
Nature Communications, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms7004 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Manuela Friedrich, Ines Wilhelm, Jan Born, Angela D. Friederici |
| Abstract |
Sleep consolidates memory and promotes generalization in adults, but it is still unknown to what extent the rapidly growing infant memory benefits from sleep. Here we show that during sleep the infant brain reorganizes recent memories and creates semantic knowledge from individual episodic experiences. Infants aged between 9 and 16 months were given the opportunity to encode both objects as specific word meanings and categories as general word meanings. Event-related potentials indicate that, initially, infants acquire only the specific but not the general word meanings. About 1.5 h later, infants who napped during the retention period, but not infants who stayed awake, remember the specific word meanings and, moreover, successfully generalize words to novel category exemplars. Independently of age, the semantic generalization effect is correlated with sleep spindle activity during the nap, suggesting that sleep spindles are involved in infant sleep-dependent brain plasticity. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 562 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 171 | 30% |
| United States | 14 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 2% |
| Argentina | 4 | <1% |
| Taiwan | 3 | <1% |
| Peru | 2 | <1% |
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| China | 2 | <1% |
| Comoros | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 13 | 2% |
| Unknown | 339 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 545 | 97% |
| Scientists | 12 | 2% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | <1% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 311 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 3 | <1% |
| France | 3 | <1% |
| Japan | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Turkey | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 299 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 63 | 20% |
| Researcher | 48 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 34 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 25 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 18 | 6% |
| Other | 64 | 21% |
| Unknown | 59 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 90 | 29% |
| Neuroscience | 51 | 16% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 23 | 7% |
| Linguistics | 16 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 4% |
| Other | 36 | 12% |
| Unknown | 83 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 302. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 November 2023.
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