{"pk":28384,"title":"Contributions of Statistical Regularities to Semantic Development","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Extensive findings attest to an early-emerging sensitivity to statistical regularities, such as reliable co-occurrence betweenperceptual inputs. However, we know little about how such sensitivity may shape the organization of semantic memoryaccording to relations between concepts. To address this question, we designed a paradigm appropriate for a broad devel-opmental age-range in which participants identify whether either a word or a picture is the same or of the same thing as apreceding word (e.g., chicken followed by chicken or a chicken picture). Semantic effects are inferred from slower correctno responses to pairs that are related versus those that are unrelated. We used this paradigm to assess semantic effects in4-year-old children for pairs that co-occurred in child-directed speech (e.g., shoe-foot) or were taxonomically related (e.g.,fork-bowl). We found evidence of semantic effects in all conditions, suggesting that co-occurrence sensitivity contributesto relational knowledge in emerging semantic networks.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Abstracts-Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7h52t19f","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Layla","middle_name":"","last_name":"Unger","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Ohio State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Vladimir","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sloutsky","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Ohio State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28384/galley/18139/download/"}]}