Timing is everything: Changes in presentation rate have opposite effects on auditory and visual implicit statistical learning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1021-1040

  Emberson, Lauren L ^a,b   Conway, Christopher M ^c   Christiansen, Morten H ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit learning; Multisensory processing; Perceptual grouping; Statistical learning; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; STUDENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958048265     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2010.538972     Document Type: Article

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