#WordLearning
🚀 My first PhD paper is out! 🚀
"How do multiple meanings affect word learning and remapping?" was published in Memory & Cognition!
Big thanks to my supervisors and co-authors (Iring Koch & @troembke.bsky.social).
Curious? Read it here: rdcu.be/eeY9o
#CognitivePsychology #WordLearning #Bilingualism
How do multiple meanings affect word learning and remapping?
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March 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
🚨New Paper Alert🚨
We are excited to share that our paper "Auditory associative word learning in adults: the effects of musical experience and stimulus ordering" is now online!
#NeuroSky #WordLearning #Musicians #Athletes #Ordering #ERP
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July 24, 2024 at 8:11 AM
🔝 We have a new PhD in #BCBL!

Congratulations to Daphne R. Weiss on the successful defense of her PhD thesis, ‘The role of interleaved lexical activation in #wordlearning’. 🎉

✅ Efthymia Kapnoula & Arthur Samuel have been the directors of her work.
June 26, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The WORD Lab is recruiting kids for our exciting new study🧠✨

Please don’t hesitate to get in contact or sign up using the link in our bio (tinyurl.com/WORDLabList). We can’t wait to meet you and your little one! 😊

#Psychology #WordLearning #Brighton #ResearchStudy #SussexUniversity
January 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Scaff, Coffey & Cristia (2025) meta-analysis (N=8,200, 15-46mo): correlation btwn SES & children's word comprehension increased w/ child age; touch-based measures had smaller effects than both looking- and pointing-based measures #EarlyYears #WordLearning #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
A Meta‐Analysis of the Correlation Between Socioeconomic Status and Direct Measures of Young Children's Word Comprehension
What can we learn from the empirical body of literature on the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and children's word comprehension? To answer this question, a systematic review was carri....
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December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Hello E-DLD followers! Today's study investigated how verbal working memory impacts word learning abilities

Article summary: www.engage-dld.com/post/word-le...
Full text available at: doi.org/10.1177/2396...
YouTube summary: youtu.be/MF8hRS7K-CM

#DevLangDis #DLD #VerbalWorkingMemory #WordLearning
May 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
✍️ #BCBLpaper in #ScientificStudiesofReading | Cross-linguistic influences of orthographic depth on written #wordlearning in the first and #secondlanguage.

Antzaka, A., Li T., Jevtovi, M. & Martin, C.

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cross-Linguistic Influences of Orthographic Depth on Written Word Learning in the First and Second Language
Readers of deep orthographies tend to rely on larger grain sizes than readers of shallow orthographies, and bilinguals’ grain sizes may reflect both languages. This study examined grain-size use in...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:56 PM
🗣️ We have invited Abhilasha Kumar, Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College, to speak to us about her work exploring form-meaning interactions in novel #wordlearning and #memory search.

We are eager to know more about her work!

Discover more about it here👇

www.bcbl.eu/es/noticias/...
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
✍️ #BCBLpaper in #BrainResearch | The impact of talker variability and individual differences on #wordlearning in adults.

Abu El Adas, S., Yen, I., & Levi, S.V.

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The impact of talker variability and individual differences on word learning in adults
Studies have shown that exposure to multiple talkers during learning is beneficial in a variety of spoken language tasks, such as learning speech soun…
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February 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🗣️🔡@M_Llompart was yesterday at #BCBL to talk to us about how the novel #wordlearning paradigm can shed light into the interplay of sound and word learning in a #secondlanguage.

Thank you for the visit and the explanation! 🙌

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February 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM