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    "pk": 49843,
    "title": "Zero-Shot Cross-Situational Learning for Building Word-Referent Mappings",
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    "abstract": "Statistical learning (SL) mechanisms drive learning across several domains, including language acquisition. Can SL mechanisms like cross-situational word learning, which rely on the accumulation of statistical evidence, also account for the rapid acceleration in children's word learning? This study examined whether learners could track and integrate several statistical regularities concurrently and use this information to map words to objects that never co-occurred during training—a behavior known as zero-shot learning. Experiment 1 showed that learners leveraged their acquired knowledge of word and object categories to map words to objects that did not co-occur during training. Experiment 2 extended this finding by demonstrating that learners integrated their newly acquired statistics with prior knowledge to map novel words to perceptually similar, yet previously unseen, objects. These findings suggest that integrating several types of statistical relationships between words and objects can accelerate new learning, making SL an efficient mechanism for early word learning.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Language acquisition; Learning; Statistical learning"
        }
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Melina",
            "middle_name": "Lauryn",
            "last_name": "Knabe",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Texas at Austin",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Chen",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Texas at Austin",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T11:00:00-07:00",
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