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      Contextual diversity facilitates learning new words in the classroom 

      Rosa, Eva; Tapia, José Luis; Perea, Manuel (PLoS ONE, 2017)
      In the field of word recognition and reading, it is commonly assumed that frequently repeated words create more accessible memory traces than infrequently repeated words, thus capturing the word-frequency effect. ...
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      Does narrator variability facilitate incidental word learning in the classroom? 

      Tapia, José Luis; Rocabado, Francisco; Vergara-Martínez, Marta; Perea, Manuel (SPRINGER, 2022)
      Recent studies have revealed that presenting novel words across various contexts (i.e., contextual diversity) helps to consolidate the meaning of these words both in adults and children. This effect has been typically ...