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Direct linkPerfetti, Charles A.; Wlotko, Edward W.; Hart, Lesley A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
Adults learned the meanings of rare words (e.g., gloaming) and then made meaning judgments on pairs of words. The 1st word was a trained rare word, an untrained rare word, or an untrained familiar word. Event-related potentials distinguished trained rare words from both untrained rare and familiar words, first at 140 ms and again at 400-600 ms…
Descriptors: Memory, Paired Associate Learning, Vocabulary Development, Semantics
