Statistical learning of two artificial languages presented successively: How conscious?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue SEP, 2011, Pages

  Franco, Ana ^a   Cleeremans, Axel ^a   Destrebecqz, Arnaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Implicit learning; Process dissociation procedure; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860481509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00229     Document Type: Article

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