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Children learn thousands of words in the first years of life, but the process supporting this feat is largely unknown. New neuroimaging results indicate that learning a word may be sudden rather than gradual, supported by hippocampal memory.
This study explores developmental changes in the ability to ask informative questions, hypothesizing a link between the ability to update beliefs in light of evidence and the ability to ask informative questions. Five- to ten-year-old children played an iPad game asking them to identify a hidden insect. Learners could either ask about individual insects, or make a series of feature queries (e.g.,...
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