Applying an exemplar model to the artificial-grammar task: String completion and performance on individual items

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1014-1039

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar; Exemplar theory; Implicit learning; Minerva 2; String completion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 77951742241     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210903267417     Document Type: Article

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