The Role of Working Memory in Implicit and Explicit Language Learning

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2061-2066

  Tagarelli, Kaitlyn M ^a   Borges Mota, Mailce ^b   Rebuschat, Patrick ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

explicit learning; implicit learning; working memory

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX COGNITIVE TASKS; CONDITION; EXPLICIT LEARNING; IMPLICIT LEARNING; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LANGUAGE LEARNING; MEMORY CAPACITY; PERFORMANCE; RULE SEARCH; WORKING MEMORY;

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