Toddlers remember new words as they sleep
Very young children learn words at a tremendous rate. A new study shows how specific brain regions help them remember those words while they're sleeping.
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Very young children learn words at a tremendous rate. A new study shows how specific brain regions help them remember those words while they're sleeping.
A study found that children's hippocampus activated when the sleeping kids were played words they had previously learned.
The study found that children's hippocampus activated when the sleeping kids were played words they had previously learned.
Activation of specific brain regions as a two-year kid recollects newly learned words while asleep reveals memory for words for the first time.
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