• Question: Do children really learn differently to adults?

    Asked by anon-188701 to Paul on 6 Nov 2018.
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      Paul Matusz answered on 6 Nov 2018:


      Yes, definitely.
      On the one hand, we do know that children’s brains, especially around 2-5 years old, take in a lot knowledge, especially related to speaking. They can easily learn 2 or even more languages at the same time during that time, and be fluent in them!

      I study how we pay attention more strongly to multisensory information and learning it is often much easier, compared to attending to or learning visual information. I summarise what we know about differences in learning and attention between adults and children, and i discuss in short one of my studies on multisensory attention in children and adults here – https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2017.00008 . Have a look 🙂

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