Learning Words: How Children Integrate Information
Researchers use a computer model to explain how children integrate information during word learning
Children learn a huge number of words in the early preschool years. A two-year-old might be able to say just a handful of words, while a five-year-old is quite likely to know many thousands. How do children achieve this marvelous feat? The question has occupied psychologists for over a century: In countless carefully designed experiments, researchers titrate the information children use to learn new words. How children integrate different types of information, has remained unclear. A new study sheds light on this issue.
Publication: Bohn, M., et al., How young children integrate information sources to infer the meaning of words, Nature Human Behaviour (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01145-1
Original Story Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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