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    "pk": 25623,
    "title": "Referential cues modulate attention and memory\nduring cross-situational word learning",
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    "abstract": "Tracking word-object co-occurrence statistics can reduce referential\nuncertainty during word learning. But human learners\nare constrained by limits on attention and memory, and therefore\nmust store a subset of the information available—how do\nthey select what information to store? We hypothesize that the\npresence of referential cues like eye gaze guides how learners\nallocate their attention. In three large-scale experiments\nwith adults, we test how the presence of referential cues affects\ncross-situational word learning. Referential cues shift learners\naway from multiple hypothesis tracking towards storing only a\nsingle hypothesis (Experiments 1 and 2). In addition, learners\nare sensitive to the reliability of a referential cue and when it is\nless reliable, they are less likely to use the cue and more likely\nto store multiple hypotheses (Experiment 3). Together, the data\nsuggest a rational tradeoff: In conditions of greater uncertainty,\nlearners tend to store a broader range of information.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "statistical learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "word learning"
        },
        {
            "word": "referential\ncues"
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        {
            "word": "resource rationality"
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    "section": "Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Kyle",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "MacDonald",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Daniel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yurovsky",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "C",
            "last_name": "Frank",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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