{"pk":27367,"title":"Word-object associations are non-selective in infants and young children","subtitle":null,"abstract":"For decades, theories of early word learning have assumedthat infants are equipped with learning biases that help themlearn words at a fast pace. One of these biases, called MutualExclusivity, suggests that infants reject second labels forname-known objects. Our first two experiments, with childrenand with infants, suggest that novelty preference duringMutual Exclusivity tasks should not be taken as evidence thatassociations between novel labels and name-known objectshave not taken place. A third experiment, supplemented withcomputational modeling, ruled out cascaded activationpatterns as alternative explanations and, instead, confirmedthat word-object associations are non-selective throughoutinfancy and childhood.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Mutual exclusivity; early word learning; cross-situational statistical learning"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3cg2z2h8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sia","middle_name":"Ming","last_name":"Yean","name_suffix":"","institution":"The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus","department":""},{"first_name":"Julien","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mayor","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Oslo","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T12:00:00-06:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27367/galley/17003/download/"}]}