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• University of Freiburg study on vocabulary acquisition uses novel game-based design • Study results: Children of primary school age can benefit from long-term experience with multiple accents when ...

A team of cognitive and computer scientists has successfully trained a basic artificial intelligence model to match images to words using just 61 hours of naturalistic footage and sound—previously ...

Educational Technology, Vol. 54, No. 1 (January-February 2014), pp. 40-46 (7 pages) In this study, the authors analyzed all research articles published between 2002 and 2011 in the Journal of Computer ...

This study investigates incidental vocabulary learning through captioned or subtitled videos and examines whether and how different learner- (prior vocabulary knowledge) and word-related factors (i.e.

Computer-based artificial intelligence can function more like human intelligence when programmed to use a much faster technique for learning new objects, say two neuroscientists who designed such a ...