An associative model of adaptive inference for learning word-referent mappings

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 317-324

  Kachergis, George ^a   Yu, Chen ^a   Shiffrin, Richard M ^a  

^a Program in Neuroscience   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross situational learning; Language acquisition; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858408264     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0194-6     Document Type: Article

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