Do children (and adults) benefit from a prediction error boost in one-shot word learning?

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• dc.contributor.author Gambi, Chiara
• dc.contributor.author Lelonkiewicz, Jaroslaw R.
• dc.contributor.author Crepaldi, Davide
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-14T07:31:28Z
• dc.date.available 2024-02-14T07:31:28Z
• dc.date.issued 2024
• dc.description.abstract Influential theories and computational models suggest error-based learning plays an important role in language acquisition: Children learn new words by generating predictions about upcoming utterances and revising those predictions when they are erroneous. Critically, revising stronger (rather than weaker) predictions should further enhance learning. Although previously demonstrated in adults, such prediction error boost has not been conclusively shown in children. To close this gap, we tested 107 participants between the ages of 5 and 10. We found little evidence that word learning in this age group benefits from a prediction error boost. Moreover, we also failed to replicate previous evidence for such an effect in adults. Based on a detailed task analysis, we suggest the variation in adult findings may be partly explained by differences in encoding strategies and that, relatedly, the protracted development of the episodic memory system might explain why children do not experience robust benefits from having stronger (rather than weaker) predictions disconfirmed.
• dc.description.sponsorship CG was supported by a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant (SRG1910-100600). JRL and DC were supported by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Grant Agreement No 679010 STATLEARN ERC-2015-STG, awarded to DC.
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• dc.identifier.citation Gambi C, Lelonkiewicz JR, Crepaldi D. Do children (and adults) benefit from a prediction error boost in one-shot word learning?. J Cogn. 2024;7(1):16 p. DOI: 10.5334/joc.342
• dc.identifier.issn 2514-4820
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59105
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Ubiquity Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Cognition. 2024;7(1):16 p.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/679010
• dc.rights © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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• dc.subject.keyword prediction error
• dc.subject.keyword mutual exclusivity
• dc.subject.keyword disconfirmed predictions
• dc.subject.keyword memory retention
• dc.subject.keyword word learning
• dc.subject.keyword language acquisition
• dc.title Do children (and adults) benefit from a prediction error boost in one-shot word learning?
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