Artificial grammar learning depends on implicit acquisition of both abstract and exemplar-specific information

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 169-181

  Knowlton, Barbara J ^a,b,d   Squire, Larry R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AMNESIA; DIENCEPHALON; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; VERBAL LEARNING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0029685359     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.22.1.169     Document Type: Article

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