Learning and Long-Term Retention of Large-Scale Artificial Languages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Frank, Michael C ^a   Tenenbaum, Joshua B ^b   Gibson, Edward ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84871817994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052500     Document Type: Article

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