Generalizing linguistic structures under high attention demands

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 493-501

  Toro, Juan M ^a   Sinnett, Scott ^b   Soto Faraco, Salvador ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention; Generalization; Rule learning; Speech perception; Structural constraints

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79952392448     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022056     Document Type: Article

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