A memory approach towards understanding age-related sensitivities in language learning Ghent University
Compared to adults, children appear to be better at learning language. The precise reason why has proven difficult to comprehend. The goal of the present research project is to address this question from a memory-based perspective. We hypothesize that age-dependent sensitivities in language learning are due to a shift from reliance on procedural memory (PM) which is specialized for the implicit learning of sequential properties in language ...