The nature of the memory buffer in implicit learning: Learning Chinese tonal symmetries

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 920-930

  Li, Feifei ^a   Jiang, Shan ^b   Guo, Xiuyan ^a   Yang, Zhiliang ^a   Dienes, Zoltan ^c  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context free grammar; Implicit learning; Inversion; Nonlocal dependencies; Retrograde; Structural knowledge; Subjective measures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LITERATURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH TRAINING SYSTEM;

EID: 84880615322     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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