How Sleep Helps Children Learn and Remember New Words
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See how sleep helps children try to learn made-up words.
To measure the brain’s ability to form completely new memories, researchers teach kids made-up words for novel objects.
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How Sleep Helps Children Learn and Remember New Words
Clip: Season 47 Episode 4 | 4m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
To measure the brain’s ability to form completely new memories, researchers teach kids made-up words for novel objects.
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