Regularity of unit length boosts statistical learning in verbal and nonverbal artificial languages

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 142-147

  Hoch, L ^a,b   Tyler, M D ^b   Tillmann, B ^a,b  

^a LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Music cognition; Sound recognition; Speech; Speech perception acquisition; Statistical learning; Temporal regularities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873133801     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0309-8     Document Type: Article

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