Implicit learning of what comes when and where within a sequence: The time-course of acquiring serial position-item and item-item associations to represent serial order

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 83-97

  Schuck, Nicolas W ^a,b   Gaschler, Robert ^a   Frensch, Peter A ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chaining; Implicit sequence learning; Race model; Serial order; SRTSRT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877947222     PISSN: 18951171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5709/acp-0106-0     Document Type: Article

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