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Potter, Christine E.; Wang, Tianlin; Saffran, Jenny R. – Cognitive Science, 2017
Recent research has begun to explore individual differences in statistical learning, and how those differences may be related to other cognitive abilities, particularly their effects on language learning. In this research, we explored a different type of relationship between language learning and statistical learning: the possibility that learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Experience, Mandarin Chinese, Control Groups
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Meilinger, Tobias; Knauff, Markus; Bulthoff, Heinrich H. – Cognitive Science, 2008
This study examines the working memory systems involved in human wayfinding. In the learning phase, 24 participants learned two routes in a novel photorealistic virtual environment displayed on a 220 degrees screen while they were disrupted by a visual, a spatial, a verbal, or--in a control group--no secondary task. In the following wayfinding…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Short Term Memory, Virtual Classrooms, Spatial Ability