{"pk":26048,"title":"Learning multiple kinds of associations during cross-situational word learning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Learning the meanings of words involves not only forming connections between individual words and concepts\nbut also building a network of connections across objects and words. Previous studies reveal that infants and adults can learn\nword-referent links across multiple ambiguous training instances by tracking the statistical co-occurrence of labels and objects\n(Smith & Yu, 2008; Dautriche & Chemla, 2014). We asked whether adults are sensitive to multiple types of statistical structure\nin these learning instances by manipulating the frequency with which objects co-occurred with each other during training trials.\nAcross several studies (n=150), we find that adults not only learned to disambiguate label referents, but simultaneously formed\nconnections both between the frequently co-occurring objects themselves and between the labels of frequently co-occurring\nobjects. These findings indicate that learners exploit statistical regularities to form multiple types of associations during word\nlearning.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6nr9t8p4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Martin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zettersten","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Erica","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wojcik","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Viridiana","middle_name":"L","last_name":"Benitez","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Jenny","middle_name":"","last_name":"Saffran","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","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/26048/galley/15672/download/"}]}