Prior familiarity with components enhances unconscious learning of relations

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 413-418

  Scott, Ryan B ^a   Dienes, Zoltan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar learning; Associative learning; Familiarity; Implicit learning; Perceptual learning; Unconscious knowledge

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; GRAMMAR; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LEARNING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCABULARY;

EID: 77649238118     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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