Subjective confidence influences word learning in a cross-situational statistical learning task

• subjective confidence influences selective information processing in word learning. adults ignore disconfirming when their meaning is high. a mutual-exclusivity inferences. Learning often accompanied by sense of one’s knowledge, feeling knowing what you know and how well it. Subjective has been shown to guide learning other domains, but received little attention so far the literature. Across three experiments, we investigated whether having acquired process itself. First, show evidence for confirmation bias during cross-situational statistical task: Learners who are highly confident they more likely persist belief than learners not, even after observing objective belief. Second, that modulates inferential processes based on word, affecting over whole lexicon: hold high use make mutual exclusivity inferences about words. We conclude modulating both selection discuss implications these results models.