How young children integrate information sources to infer the meaning of words

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Here you find all experimental procedures, data files and analysis scripts associated with the study.

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Paper

Bohn, M.,Tessler, M. H., Merrick, M., & Frank, M. C. (2021). How young children integrate information sources to infer the meaning of words. Nature Human Behaviour

Structure

• Experiments can be found in experiments/.

  • To run the experiments, download the repository and open the respective .html file.

• The main manuscript and the supplementary material can be found in paper/.

  • For an easy to read version, open the respective .pdf file

  • For a nicely rendered version of the supplementary material open supplementary_material.html

  • To access the code for the analyses reported in the paper or the supplementary material, open the respective .Rmd files.

• All data sets can be found in data/.

• Code for cognitive models and Bayesian parameter estimation can be found in webppl/.

  • llh_model.wppl contains the code for the model comparison

  • prediction_all_models.wppl generates model predictions for all models of the prediction section

  • .wppl files starting with explanation_ generate model predictions for the respective model of the explanation section

• Processed model predictions for probabilistic models and some summary statistics are saved as .rds files in saves/.

• Raw samples for the model comparison and model predictions can be downloaded here