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

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

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

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