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| Title |
Fast Mapping Across Time: Memory Processes Support Children’s Retention of Learned Words
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00046 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Haley A. Vlach, Catherine M. Sandhofer |
| Abstract |
Children's remarkable ability to map linguistic labels to referents in the world is commonly called fast mapping. The current study examined children's (N = 216) and adults' (N = 54) retention of fast-mapped words over time (immediately, after a 1-week delay, and after a 1-month delay). The fast mapping literature often characterizes children's retention of words as consistently high across timescales. However, the current study demonstrates that learners forget word mappings at a rapid rate. Moreover, these patterns of forgetting parallel forgetting functions of domain-general memory processes. Memory processes are critical to children's word learning and the role of one such process, forgetting, is discussed in detail - forgetting supports extended mapping by promoting the memory and generalization of words and categories. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 142 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Russia | 2 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 134 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 42 | 30% |
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 13% |
| Researcher | 15 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 14 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 8% |
| Other | 26 | 18% |
| Unknown | 14 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 76 | 54% |
| Linguistics | 12 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 18 | 13% |
| Unknown | 19 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 25 October 2014.
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