Performing the unexplainable: Implicit task performance reveals individually reliable sequence learning without explicit knowledge

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 790-796

  Sanchez, Daniel J ^a   Gobel, Eric W ^a   Reber, Paul J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651262360     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.17.6.790     Document Type: Article

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