Brain activation in sleeping toddlers shows memory for words

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Brain activation in sleeping toddlers shows memory for words

Very young children learn words at a tremendous rate. Now researchers at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, have for the first time seen how specific brain regions activate as two-year-olds remember newly learned words—while the children were sleeping. The work is published Oct. 19 in Current Biology.

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