Learning and Consolidation of Novel Spoken Words

Learning and Consolidation of Novel Spoken Words

Two experiments explored the neural mechanisms underlying the learning and consolidation of novel spoken words. In Experiment 1, participants learned two sets of novel words on successive days. A subsequent recognition test revealed high levels of familiarity for both sets. However, a lexical decision task showed that only novel words learned on the previous day engaged in lexical competition w...

The impact of music on learning and consolidation of novel words.

Music can be a powerful mnemonic device, as shown by a body of literature demonstrating that listening to text sung to a familiar melody results in better memory for the words compared to conditions where they are spoken. Furthermore, patients with a range of memory impairments appear to be able to form new declarative memories when they are encoded in the form of lyrics in a song, while unable...

Learning Spoken Words from Multisensory Input

Speech recognition and speech translation are traditionally addressed by processing acoustic signals while nonlinguistic information is typically not used. In this paper, we present a new method which explores the spoken word learning from naturally co-occurring multisensory information in a dyadic(two-person) conversation. It has been noticed that the listener always has a strong tendency to l...

Learning Visually Grounded Words and Syntax of Natural Spoken Language

Properties of the physical world have shaped human evolutionary design and given rise to physically grounded mental representations. These grounded representations provide the foundation for higher level cognitive processes including language. Most natural language processing machines to date lack grounding. This paper advocates the creation of physically grounded language learning machines as ...

Spoken word recognition of novel words, either produced or only heard during learning