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Rey, Arnaud; Fagot, Joël; Mathy, Fabien; Lazartigues, Laura; Tosatto, Laure; Bonafos, Guillem; Freyermuth, Jean-Marc; Lavigne, Frédéric – Cognitive Science, 2022
The extraction of cooccurrences between two events, A and B, is a central learning mechanism shared by all species capable of associative learning. Formally, the cooccurrence of events A and B appearing in a sequence is measured by the transitional probability (TP) between these events, and it corresponds to the probability of the second stimulus…
Descriptors: Animals, Learning Processes, Associative Learning, Serial Learning
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Fabian Tomaschek; Michael Ramscar; Jessie S. Nixon – Cognitive Science, 2024
Sequence learning is fundamental to a wide range of cognitive functions. Explaining how sequences--and the relations between the elements they comprise--are learned is a fundamental challenge to cognitive science. However, although hundreds of articles addressing this question are published each year, the actual learning mechanisms involved in the…
Descriptors: Sequential Learning, Learning Processes, Serial Learning, Executive Function
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Candice C. Morey; Angela M. AuBuchon; Meg Attwood; Thomas Castelain; Nelson Cowan; Davide Crepaldi; Emilie Fjerdingstad; Eivor Fredriksen; Chris Jarrold; Chris Koch; Jaroslaw R. Lelonkiewicz; Gary Lupyan; Whitney Mendenhall; David Moreau; Christina Schonberg; Christian K. Tamnes; Haley Vlach; Emily M. Elliott – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2025
Though verbal rehearsal is a frequently endorsed strategy for remembering short lists among adults, there is ambiguity around when children deploy it, and what circumstantial factors encourage them to rehearse. We recoded data from a recent multilab replication of a serial picture memory task in which children were observed for evidence of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Recall (Psychology), Learning Processes, Priming
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Wang, Felix Hao; Kaiser, Elsi – Language Learning, 2022
Although syntactic priming has been well studied and is commonly assumed to involve implicit learning, the mechanisms behind this phenomenon are still under debate. Recent studies have suggested that exposure to nonlinguistic statistical patterns may influence language users' relative clause attachment biases, but whether the priming effect comes…
Descriptors: Syntax, Priming, Cues, Language Usage
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Keawchaum, Raksina; Pongpairoj, Nattama – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2017
This study investigated how frequency influenced acquisition of L2 English infinitive and gerund complements among L1 Thai learners. Participants were separated into low and high proficiency groups based on their CU-TEP scores. Each group consisted of 30 participants. Data were collected using the Word Selection Task (WST) and the Grammaticality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition
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Sheridan, Heather; Reingold, Eyal M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The present experiments examined perceptual specificity effects using a rereading paradigm. Eye movements were monitored while participants read the same target word twice, in two different low-constraint sentence frames. The congruency of perceptual processing was manipulated by either presenting the target word in the same distortion typography…
Descriptors: Evidence, Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Word Frequency
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Mayor-Dubois, C.; Maeder, P.; Zesiger, P.; Roulet-Perez, E. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
We investigated procedural learning in 18 children with basal ganglia (BG) lesions or dysfunctions of various aetiologies, using a visuo-motor learning test, the Serial Reaction Time (SRT) task, and a cognitive learning test, the Probabilistic Classification Learning (PCL) task. We compared patients with early (less than 1 year old, n=9), later…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Neurological Impairments, Pathology, Patients
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Berner, Michael P.; Hoffmann, Joachim – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
In almost all daily activities fingers of both hands are used in coordinated succession. The present experiments explored whether learning in such tasks pertains not only to the overall sequence spanning both hands but also to the constituent sequences of each hand. In a serial reaction time task, 2 repeating hand-related sequences were…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Reaction Time, Learning Processes, Psychomotor Skills
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Howard, James H., Jr.; Howard, Darlene V.; Dennis, Nancy A.; Kelly, Andrew J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Knowledge of sequential relationships enables future events to be anticipated and processed efficiently. Research with the serial reaction time task (SRTT) has shown that sequence learning often occurs implicitly without effort or awareness. Here, the authors report 4 experiments that use a triplet-learning task (TLT) to investigate sequence…
Descriptors: Cues, Reaction Time, Older Adults, Probability
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Gebauer, Guido F.; Mackintosh, Nicholas J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2007
The hypothesis that performance on implicit learning tasks is unrelated to psychometric intelligence was examined in a sample of 605 German pupils. Performance in artificial grammar learning, process control, and serial learning did not correlate with various measures of intelligence when participants were given standard implicit instructions.…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Serial Learning, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests
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Page, Mike P. A.; Cumming, Nick; Norris, Dennis; Hitch, Graham J.; McNeil, Alan M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
In 5 experiments, a Hebb repetition effect, that is, improved immediate serial recall of an (unannounced) repeating list, was demonstrated in the immediate serial recall of visual materials, even when use of phonological short-term memory was blocked by concurrent articulation. The learning of a repeatedly presented letter list in one modality…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Serial Learning, Recall (Psychology), Visual Aids