NeuroscienceCerebral CortexPeer-reviewed
Direct neural evidence for the contrastive roles of the complementary learning systems in adult acquisition of native vocabulary
Katherine R. Gore, Anna M. Woollams, Stefanie Bruehl…·Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
The paper investigates the neural mechanisms of vocabulary acquisition in adults using functional neuroimaging, finding that newly learned words engage both episodic memory and semantic language regions, with hippocampal activity predicting long-term retention.