The acquisition of morphological knowledge investigated through artificial language learning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1200-1220

  Merkx, Marjolein ^a   Rastle, Kathleen ^a   Davis, Matthew H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Morpheme acquisition; Orthography; Semantics; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958101963     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2010.538211     Document Type: Article

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