IN PRESS, Cognitive Science Part of the special issue in honor of Linda Smith’s Rumelhart Prize Moving Word Learning to a Novel Space: A Dynamic Systems View of Referent Selection and Retention Larissa K. Samuelson*+ Sarah C. Kucker~+ John P. Spencer *+ *School of Psychology, University of East Anglia ~ The Callier Center for Communication Disorders, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas +DeLTA Center Corresponding Author: Larissa K. Samuelson Room 0.09b Lawrence Stenhouse Building University of East Anglia Norwich NR3 7TJ email: l.samuelson@uea.ac.uk keywords: word learning, dynamic systems, Dynamic Field Theory, fast mapping, attention, spatial memory, referent selection