{"id":629,"date":"2025-12-19T17:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/?p=629"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:03:53","slug":"new-paper-on-curiosity-and-word-learning-in-infants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/2025\/12\/19\/new-paper-on-curiosity-and-word-learning-in-infants\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper on curiosity and word learning in infants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New paper in Developmental Science! <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/desc.70101\">https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/desc.70101<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We find that infants just under 2 years of age are adept at learning new words &#8211; both in active and passive modes of learning. We did not find an advantage for word learning when children had a choice what to learn about over when the learning events were presented to them in a passive manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New paper in Developmental Science! https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/desc.70101 We find that infants just under 2 years of age are adept at learning new words &#8211; both in active and passive modes of learning. We did not find an advantage for word learning when children had a choice what to learn about over when the learning events were&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/2025\/12\/19\/new-paper-on-curiosity-and-word-learning-in-infants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New paper on curiosity and word learning in infants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}