{"pk":26029,"title":"Cross-situationalWord Learning Results in Explicit Memory Representations","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Word learning is a fundamental part of language acquisition. Learning words from cross-situational statistics (Yu\n& Smith 2007) has been argued to be critical for lexical acquisition, but the resulting representations are not well understood.\nHere, we examine the claim from Hamrick & Rebuschat (2014) that cross-situational learning results in implicit representations.\nThree experiments provide evidence to the contrary. First, we establish that confidence ratings positively correlate with accuracy.\nBy using a cover story where participants were not told to infer word meaning, only highly confident answers were above\nchance, contrary to what accounts of implicit memory would predict. In addition, using a deadline procedure (Voss, Bayem &\nPaller 2008), we found that participants performed no differently than without a deadline, contrary to predictions from implicit\nmemory representations. In sum, we conclude that representations from cross-situational word learning are explicit.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wr170pq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Felix","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wang","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California","department":""},{"first_name":"Toben","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mintz","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Southern California","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/26029/galley/15653/download/"}]}