Researchers have focused for decades on how young children learn individual words.
However, they have paid less attention to how children organize their word knowledge into …

Investigating how infants first establish relationships between words is a necessary step
towards understanding how an interconnected network of semantic relationships develops …

The organization of our knowledge about the world into an interconnected network of
concepts linked by relations profoundly impacts many facets of cognition, including attention …

Research on the early lexical-semantic system has described how toddlers organize word
representations based on semantic and phonological features. This study is a longitudinal …

The current study examines the relationship between 18‐month‐old toddlers' vocabulary
size and their ability to inhibit attention to no‐longer relevant information using the backward …

Recent years have seen a flourishing of Natural Language Processing models that can
mimic many aspects of human language fluency. These models harness a simple, decades …

Active learning from infancy to childhood Megan M. Saylor· Patricia A. Ganea Editors Active
Learning from Infancy to Childhood Social Motivation, Cognition, and Linguistic Mechanisms …

This study set out to investigate whether the 'phonological onset preference effect'often
reported in adult studies using the visual world task (ie, increased attention to an object that …

The account that word learning starts in earnest during the second year of life, when infants
have mastered the disambiguation skills, has recently been challenged by evidence that …

Is the developing lexicon phonologically detailed or are representations underspecified?
Experimental results from toddlers suggest phonological specificity. By contrast, the …