Conventional memory theory proposes that the hippocampus is initially responsible for
encoding new information, before this responsibility is gradually transferred to the neocortex …

Word learning researchers have historically been interested in elucidating the mechanisms
that allow children to encode words. Recent research has moved beyond the moment of …

There is robust evidence that sleep facilitates declarative memory consolidation. Integration
of newly acquired memories into existing neocortical knowledge networks has been …

Existing behavioral, neuropsychological and functional neuroimaging data suggest that at
least two major cognitive strategies are used for new word learning: fast mapping (FM) via …

Word acquisition could be mediated by the neurocognitive mechanism known as fast
mapping (FM). It refers to a process of incidental exclusion-based learning and is believed to …

Fast mapping (FM) is an incidental learning process that is hypothesized to allow rapid,
cortical-based memory formation, independent of the normal, hippocampally dependent …

The neural bases of action and abstract concept representations remain a topic of debate.
While several lines of research provide evidence for grounding of action-related conceptual …

Learning the associations between words and meanings is a fundamental human ability.
Although the language network is cortically well defined, the role of the white matter …

Contrary to traditional theories, it has been shown that novel, arbitrary associations can be
rapidly integrated into cortical networks through a learning paradigm called fast mapping …

Contrary to traditional theories of declarative memory, it has recently been shown that novel,
arbitrary associations can rapidly and directly be integrated into cortical memory networks by …