Learning to Associate Scenes with Spatial Terms portrayed in the scene. It is to learn to associate all applicable terms to novel scenes. The T R is restricted to be a single point for the time being; current work is directed at addressing the more general case of an arbitrarily shaped TR. Another aspect of the task is that learning must take place in the absence of explicit negative instances. This condition is imposed so that the conditions under which learning takes place will be similar in this respect to those under which children learn. Given this, there are two.