{"pk":25402,"title":"Adults Track Multiple Hypotheses Simultaneously duringWord Learning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Cross-situational learning is a basic mechanism that enables\npeople to infer the correct referent for a novel word by tracking\nmultiple hypotheses simultaneously across exposures. Previous\nresearch has shown that adults are capable of exploiting\ncross-situational information, but recently this gradual statistical\nlearning mechanism has been put under debate by researchers\nwho argue that people learn via a fast mapping procedure.\nWe compared the performance of adult participants on\na word learning task in which information was manipulated\ncross-situationally with the performance of simulated learning\nstrategies. Experimental evidence indicates that adults use\ncross-situational learning, which appears to be a robust mechanism\nthat facilitates word learning even under cognitively demanding\ncircumstances.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Cross-situational learning; artificial word\nlearning; propose-but-verify strategy; fast mapping"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3541c0v0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Suzanne","middle_name":"","last_name":"Aussems","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Psychology, University of Warwick","department":""},{"first_name":"Paul","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vogt","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication, Tilburg University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25402/galley/15026/download/"}]}