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Fast mappers, slow learners: Word learning without hippocampus is slow and sparse irrespective of methodology.
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- Semantic Memory, Traumatic Brain Injury, and the Iceberg Effect: What Deficits May Lie Below the Surface?American journal of speech-language pathology · 2025Review
- Rapid acquisition through fast mapping: stable memory over time and role of prior knowledge.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Language, Memory, and Mental Time Travel: An Evolutionary Perspective.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Semantic Memory and the Hippocampus: Revisiting, Reaffirming, and Extending the Reach of Their Critical Relationship.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Review
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Rapid word learning without the hippocampus is an alluring prospect - it holds the promise of remediating a common learning deficit associated with aging (healthy or pathological) and certain neurological conditions. Despite recent reports indicating rapid, non-hippocampal word learning by amnesic adults after contrastive 'fast-mapping' exposure, several replications have failed. These failures stand in contrast to successful but slow learning by amnesic patients under other conditions, and this pattern suggests that rapid word learning in adulthood is hippocampus-dependent and relational irrespective of learning format. However, much remains to be studied, and important methodological and theoretical considerations are highlighted here.
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