Fine-grained sensitivity to statistical information in adult word learning

Cognition

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 729-742

  Vouloumanos, Athena ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adults; Constraints; Language acquisition; Statistical learning; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH THERAPY; STATISTICS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COLOR PERCEPTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 41349100680     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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