Who Learns More? Cultural Differences in Implicit Sequence Learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Fu, Qiufang ^a   Dienes, Zoltan ^b   Shang, Junchen ^a   Fu, Xiaolan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRITISH; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL BIAS; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT SEQUENCE LEARNING; INTUITION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84881340517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071625     Document Type: Article

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