NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Aravind, Athulya; de Villiers, Jill; Pace, Amy; Valentine, Hannah; Golinkoff, Roberta; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Iglesias, Aquiles; Wilson, Mary Sweig – Grantee Submission, 2018
Do children learn a new word by tracking co-occurrences between words and referents across multiple instances ("cross-situational learning" models), or is word-learning a "one-track" process, where learners maintain a single hypothesis about the possible referent, which may be verified or falsified in future occurrences…
Descriptors: Young Children, Vocabulary Development, Memory, Retention (Psychology)
Newcombe, Nora S.; Levine, Susan C.; Mix, Kelly S. – Grantee Submission, 2015
There are many continuous quantitative dimensions in the physical world. Philosophical, psychological and neural work has focused mostly on space and number. However, there are other important continuous dimensions (e.g., time, mass). Moreover, space can be broken down into more specific dimensions (e.g., length, area, density) and number can be…
Descriptors: Correlation, Spatial Ability, Numbers, Teaching Methods