Using variability to guide dimensional weighting: Associative mechanisms in early word learning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1105-1138

  Apfelbaum, Keith S ^a   Mcmurray, Bob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Language development; Phonological development; Switch task; Variability; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79960803764     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01181.x     Document Type: Article

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