Fig. 8.

Task assessing cross-situational learning (Yu & Smith, 2007). During the familiarization phase (a), participants are instructed to learn which labels or “words” go with which pictures. On each trial, visual referents are presented along with the same number of auditorily presented labels (in random order), with each label corresponding to one of the referents. In this example, the “manu” is the red object, the “bosa” is the blue object, the “colat” is the yellow object, the “regli” is the green object, and the “gasser” is the orange object. Following familiarization, participants are given a forced-choice test (b), in which they hear a label and must pick the visual referent that is associated with it.