Since Tulving proposed a distinction in memory between semantic and episodic memory,
considerable effort has been directed towards understanding their similar and unique …

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

A pervasive goal in the study of how children learn word meanings is to explain how young
children solve the mapping problem. The mapping problem asks how language learners …

Many words are associated with more than a single meaning. Words are sometimes
“ambiguous,” applying to unrelated meanings, but the majority of frequent words are …

Learners can track word-referent co-occurrences across individually-ambiguous naming
events to form correct word-referent mappings, termed statistical word learning (SWL). Prior …

Word learning is typically studied as a problem in which children need to learn a single
meaning for a new word. And by most theories, children's learning is itself guided by the …

Visual textures are critical in how individuals form sensory expectations about objects, which
include somatosensory properties such as temperature. This study aimed to uncover …

Numerous experimental studies have shown that infants and children can discover word
meanings by using co-occurrences between labels and objects across individually …

In the current study, we examined the separate and combined effects of exemplar and
speaker variability on monolingual and bilingual children's cross-situational word learning …

To acquire novel words, learners often need to integrate information about word meanings
across ambiguous learning events distributed in time. How does the temporal structure of …