Prior Exposure and Toddlers' Sleep-Related Memory for Novel Words.

Children can easily link a novel word to a novel, unnamed object-something referred to as fast mapping. Despite the ease and speed with which children do this, their memories for novel fast-mapped words can be poor unless they receive memory supports such as further exposure to the words or sleep. Axelsson, Swinton, Winiger, and Horst (2018) found that 2.