When It Hurts (and Helps) to Try: The Role of Effort in Language Learning

Compared to children, adults are bad at learning language. This is counterintuitive; adults outperform children on most measures of cognition, especially those that involve effort (which continue to mature into early adulthood). The present study asks whether these mature effortful abilities interfe...

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Main Authors: Finn, Amy Sue (Contributor), Lee, Taraz (Author), Kraus, Allison (Author), Hudson Kam, Carla L. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2014-09-09T16:36:58Z.
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