The influence of grammatical, local, and organizational redundancy on implicit learning: An analysis using information theory

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-23

  Jamieson, Randall K ^a   Mewhort, D J K ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 12444278162     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.31.1.9     Document Type: Article

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