In this paper we present a novel theory of the cognitive and neural processes by which
adults learn new spoken words. This proposal builds on neurocomputational accounts of …

Adult language users have an enormous amount of experience with speech in their native
language. As a result, they have very well-developed processes for categorizing the sounds …

Two experiments explored the neural mechanisms underlying the learning and
consolidation of novel spoken words. In Experiment 1, participants learned two sets of novel …

Successful learning involves integrating new material into existing memory networks. A
learning procedure known as fast map** (FM), thought to simulate the word-learning …

Psycholinguists define spoken word recognition (SWR) as, roughly, the processes
intervening between speech perception and sentence processing, whereby a sequence of …

Sleep plays a role in strengthening new words and integrating them with existing vocabulary
knowledge, consistent with neural models of learning in which sleep supports hippocampal …

A successful language learner must be able to perceive and produce novel sounds in their
second language. However, the relationship between learning in perception and production …

There is increasing evidence to indicate that sleep plays a role in language acquisition and
consolidation; however, there has been substantial variability in methodological approaches …

We sought to establish whether novel words can become integrated into existing semantic
networks by teaching participants new meaningful words and then using these new words …

When a novel word is learned, its memory representation is thought to undergo a process of
consolidation and integration. In this study, we tested whether the neural representations of …