Age affects chunk-based, but not rule-based learning in artificial grammar acquisition

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1311-1317

  Kürten, Julia ^a   De Vries, Meinou H ^b   Kowal, Kristina ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^a   Flöel, Agnes ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Covariation learning; Explicit learning; Implicit learning; Medial temporal lobe; Reber grammar; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL GRAMMAR ACQUISITION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLICIT LEARNING; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861197986     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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