Category induction via distributional analysis: Evidence from a serial reaction time task

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 98-112

  Hunt, Ruskin H ^a   Aslin, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar; Category induction; Distributional analysis; Serial reaction time; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649143839     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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