Exploiting multiple sources of information in learning an artificial language: Human data and modeling

Cognitive Science

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 255-285

  Perruchet, Pierre ^a   Tillmann, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Language acquisition; Learning; Memory; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953162609     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01074.x     Document Type: Article

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