Children's remarkable ability to map linguistic labels to referents in the world is commonly called fast mapping. The current study examined children's (N = 216) and adults' (N = 54) retention of fast-mapped words over time (immediately, after a 1-week delay, and after a 1-month delay). The fast mapping literature often characterizes children's retention of words as consistently high across tim...

As critical as waking brain function is to learning and memory, an established literature now describes an equally important yet complementary role for sleep in information processing. This overview examines the specific contribution of sleep to human hippocampal memory processing; both the detriments caused by a lack of sleep, and conversely, the proactive benefits that develop following the p...

today’s challenge is learning about how to live with the change instead of planning for it and the critical point that causes the organizational change programs to fail is the lack of integrated conceptual model. to face this issue, the article has a literature review to develop a holographic model. in this model. content analysis has been used in this article. theresult was a holographic model...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between organizational culture and knowledge management establishment in physical education organization. 120 experts of physical education organization were selected through systematic sampling. two questionnaires (85% validity for organizational culture questionnaire, and 89% validity for knowledge management questionnaire) were used...

We study how peers impact worker productivity growth among salespeople in the cosmetics department of a department store. We first exploit a shift assignment policy that creates exogenous variation in salespersons’ peers each week to identify and quantify sources of worker learning. We find that peer-based learning is more important than learning-by-doing for individuals, and find no evidence o...