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. 2019 Jul-Oct;10(4):213-214.
doi: 10.1080/17588928.2019.1593124. Epub 2019 Mar 21.

Other 'routes in'? Has the 'fast' in the fast mapping concept led us astray?

Wilma Koutstaal  1
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Other 'routes in'? Has the 'fast' in the fast mapping concept led us astray?

Wilma Koutstaal. Cogn Neurosci. 2019 Jul-Oct.

Abstract

The notion of fast mapping originated in an effort to explain the remarkable adeptness and acceleration with which toddlers learn new words. Yet, by abstracting selected elements of fast mapping away from the embodied, richly concrete, intermeshed social-interactional experiences of the word-learning child, we may be missing opportunities to understand how adults with amnesia also may acquire new semantic knowledge.

Keywords: Semantic learning; abstraction; amnesia; children; developmental experience.

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