The Role of Similarity in Artificial Grammar Learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 847-862

  Pothos, Emmanuel M ^a   Bailey, Todd M ^b,c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Bangor ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0034220020     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.26.4.847     Document Type: Article

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