Trial reportJournal of experimental psychology. General2014
Fast mapping rapidly integrates information into existing memory networks.
Trial report in Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.
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- Direct Instruction Improves Word Learning for Children With Developmental Language Disorder.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022Trial
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- Pragmatics and Social Cognition in Learning and Remembering Words.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2026Article
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- Semantic Representational Strength in the Precuneus and Lateral ATL Predicts Successful Factual Learning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Lexical integration of novel words learned through natural reading.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- The Unforgettable "Mel": Pragmatic Inferences Affect How Children Acquire and Remember Word Meanings.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Variation in encoding context benefits item recognition.Memory & cognition · 2025Article
- Neurophysiological evidence of single-shot semantic mapping in the developing brain.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Distinct mechanisms and functions of episodic memory.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- New in, old out: Does learning a new language make you forget previously learned foreign languages?Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Consolidation improves the learning of new meanings for known words but not necessarily their integration into semantic memory.Language, cognition and neuroscience · 2024Article
- Neural manifestation of L2 novel concept acquisition from multi-contexts via both episodic memory and semantic memory systems.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Contextual diversity during word learning through reading benefits generalisation of learned meanings to new contexts.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Cognitive mechanisms underlying free recall in episodic memory performance across the lifespan: testing the control/representation model.Psychological research · 2023Article
- More Stable Memory Retention of Novel Words Learned from Fast Mapping than from Explicit Encoding.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2023Article
- Caregiver speech predicts the emergence of children's emotion vocabulary.Child development · 2023Article
- Structured memory representations develop at multiple time scales in hippocampal-cortical networks.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- The Role of Sleep in Learning New Meanings for Familiar Words through Stories.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
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Abstract
Successful learning involves integrating new material into existing memory networks. A learning procedure known as fast mapping (FM), thought to simulate the word-learning environment of children, has recently been linked to distinct neuroanatomical substrates in adults. This idea has suggested the (never-before tested) hypothesis that FM may promote rapid incorporation into cortical memory networks. We test this hypothesis here in 2 experiments. In our 1st experiment, we introduced 50 participants to 16 unfamiliar animals and names through FM or explicit encoding (EE) and tested participants on the training day, and again after sleep. Learning through EE produced strong declarative memories, without immediate lexical competition, as expected from slow-consolidation models. Learning through FM, however, led to almost immediate lexical competition, which continued to the next day. Additionally, the learned words began to prime related concepts on the day following FM (but not EE) training. In a 2nd experiment, we replicated the lexical integration results and determined that presenting an already-known item during learning was crucial for rapid integration through FM. The findings presented here indicate that learned items can be integrated into cortical memory networks at an accelerated rate through fast mapping. The retrieval of a related known concept, in order to infer the target of the FM question, is critical for this effect.
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