Sentence processing in an artificial language: Learning and using combinatorial constraints

Cognition

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 143-148

  Amato, Michael S ^a   MacDonald, Maryellen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial language learning; Implicit learning; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLICIT MEMORY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77952885268     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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