What is it about?
When children read, they encounter new words and they can learn the spelling and meaning of these new words. We found that the way children’s brain processes the spelling and meaning of these newly learned words is similar to how their brain processes the spelling and meaning of words that they already knew.
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Why is it important?
We already had behavioural evidence that children could learn the spelling and meaning of new words during reading. This neural evidence strengthens the idea that reading is an important activity that contributes to children’s acquisition of new knowledge.
Perspectives
This research was a great opportunity for me to see how my work on children’s word learning during reading could be used to study children’s brain.
Dr Catherine Mimeau
Université TÉLUQ
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This page is a summary of: Ortho-semantic learning of novel words: an event-related potential study of grade 3 children, Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, February 2024, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fdpys.2024.1340383.
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