Abstractionist and Processing Accounts of Implicit Learning

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 61-112

  Johnstone, Theresa ^a   Shanks, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar learning; Episodic knowledge; Episodic processing; Explicit learning; Hypothesis testing; Implicit learning; Memorization; Rule abstraction

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LONDON; MEMORY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 0035256702     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cogp.2000.0743     Document Type: Article

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66. Accepted June 27, 2000; published online January 4, 2001