[HTML][HTML] Brain signatures of embodied semantics and language: A consensus paper

L Bechtold, SH Cosper, A Malyshevskaya… - Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
According to embodied theories (including embodied, embedded, extended, enacted,
situated, and grounded approaches to cognition), language representation is intrinsically …

Better in sync: Temporal dynamics explain multisensory word‐action‐object learning in early development

R Bothe, S Eiteljoerge, L Trouillet, B Elsner, N Mani - Infancy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the temporal impact of multisensory settings on children's learning of word‐
object and action‐object associations at 1‐and 2‐years of age. Specifically, we examined …

Children's affective involvement in early word learning

V Outters, R Hepach, T Behne, N Mani - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The current study set out to examine the underlying physiological mechanisms of and the
emotional response associated with word learning success in young 3-year-old …

The acquisition of noun and verb categories by bootstrapping from a few known words: A computational model

P Brusini, O Seminck, P Amsili… - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
While many studies have shown that toddlers are able to detect syntactic regularities in
speech, the learning mechanism allowing them to do this is still largely unclear. In this …

Cross‐Situational Word Learning With Multimodal Neural Networks

WK Vong, BM Lake - Cognitive science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In order to learn the mappings from words to referents, children must integrate co‐
occurrence information across individually ambiguous pairs of scenes and utterances, a …

Word-object and action-object learning in a unimodal context during early childhood

S Eiteljoerge, B Elsner, N Mani - Language and Cognition, 2024 - cambridge.org
Word-object and action-object learning in children aged 30 to 48 months appears to develop
at a similar time scale and adheres to similar attentional constraints. However, children …

Mechanisms of associative word learning: Benefits from the visual modality and synchrony of labeled objects

SH Cosper, C Männel, JL Mueller - Cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite humans' ability to communicate about concepts relating to different senses, word
learning research tends to largely focus on labeling visual objects. Although sensory …

Nonverbal action interpretation guides novel word disambiguation in 12-month-olds

B Pomiechowska, G Csibra - Open Mind, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Whether young infants can exploit sociopragmatic information to interpret new words is a
matter of debate. Based on findings and theories from the action interpretation literature, we …

Early word learning is influenced by physical environments

E Breitfeld, JR Saffran - Child Development, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
During word learning moments, toddlers experience labels and objects in particular
environments. Do toddlers learn words better when the physical environment creates …

[HTML][HTML] In the absence of visual input: Electrophysiological evidence of infants' mapping of labels onto auditory objects

SH Cosper, C Männel, JL Mueller - Developmental Cognitive …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the prominence of non-visual semantic features for some words (eg, siren or
thunder), little is known about when and how the meanings of those words that refer to …