Implicit Learning of Recursive Context-Free Grammars

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Rohrmeier, Martin ^a   Fu, Qiufang ^b   Dienes, Zoltan ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMAR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT LEARNING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867686870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045885     Document Type: Article

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