{"pk":49604,"title":"Spacing Meets Cross-Situational Word Learning: How the Temporal Structure of Labeling Events Affects Word Learning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Limited work has considered how the temporal distribution of labeling events affects word learning in ambiguous contexts, such as the cross-situational word learning paradigm, over real-world timescales. The temporal distribution of learning events can impact how well information is retained: spacing out information promotes retention more than presenting information in close succession. In the current study, adults were presented with novel object-word pairings across six different temporal schedules over four consecutive training days. Word learning was assessed either immediately after the final training session (N = 50) or after a week (N = 54). Results revealed that adults successfully disambiguated word-object mappings across all learning schedules at both test times, except for the massed and most spaced schedules at the 1-week delay. These findings suggest that temporal distribution effects emerge across extended timescales, but there might be constraints on the amount of spacing that is optimal for word learning.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Language acquisition; Learning; Memory; Statistical learning"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4s5830m7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tong","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Melina","middle_name":"Lauryn","last_name":"Knabe","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Texas at Austin","department":""},{"first_name":"Haley","middle_name":"","last_name":"Vlach","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisconsin-Madison","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T12:00:00-06:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49604/galley/37566/download/"}]}