Project Details
Description
Infant language development is remarkably rapid in the first years of life – and infants also sleep a greater proportion of the time than anyone else. Since adult studies have shown an important role for sleep in consolidating word learning, we plan to lay the foundation for the first studies of the role of sleep in infant word learning, using naturalistic exposure through parental book reading and a variety of experimental procedures to test learning with and without napping or overnight sleep and also with and without possible interference from exposure to additional novel stimuli of a similar kind before testing.
Layman's description
Infant language development is remarkably rapid in the first years of life – and infants also sleep a greater proportion of the time than anyone else. Since adult studies have shown an important role for sleep in consolidating word learning, we plan to lay the foundation for the first studies of the role of sleep in infant word learning, using naturalistic exposure through parental book reading and a variety of experimental procedures to test learning with and without napping or overnight sleep and also with and without possible interference from exposure to additional novel stimuli of a similar kind before testing.
Key findings
By July 10 we have tested only 11 infants, so we can still not report on any findings. Testing is still ongoing.
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/04/15 → 31/07/15 |