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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds.

Elika Bergelson, Richard N Aslin

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

66 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Elika BergelsonPsychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708; elika.bergelson@gmail.com.
Richard N AslinBrain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627.

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
Visual statistical learning in human infantsR01HD037082 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI ASLIN, RICHARD N., NEWPORT, ELISSA L · 1999 to 2022
$6.1M
RESEARCH TRAINING IN THE LANGUAGE SCIENCEST32DC000035 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI TANENHAUS, MICHAEL KEHAS · 1992 to 2013
$4.9M
Contributions of infant learning to language acquisitionR01HD049681 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SWINGLEY, DANIEL · 2006 to 2017
$3.0M
Mechanisms of Word Learning in InfancyDP5OD019812 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI BERGELSON, ELIKA · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
Time Course of Spoken Word RecognitionR01HD073890 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI TANENHAUS, MICHAEL KEHAS · 2012 to 2015
$989k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD037082NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD073890NIDCD NIH HHS T32 DC000035NIH HHS DP5 OD019812
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent research reported the surprising finding that even 6-mo-olds understand common nouns [Bergelson E, Swingley D (2012)

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Language DevelopmentAcoustic StimulationAttentionEye MovementsFemaleHumansInfantMaleVerbal LearningVocabularycognitive developmentenvironmental effectslanguage acquisitionlexiconword learning

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PMID29158399
PMCPMC5724273

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