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Kiyokawa, Sachiko; Dienes, Zoltan; Tanaka, Daisuke; Yamada, Ayumi; Crowe, Louise – Cognition, 2012
Previous studies have indicated cross cultural differences in conscious processes, such that Asians have a global preference and Westerners a more analytical one. We investigated whether these biases also apply to unconscious knowledge. In Experiment 1, Japanese and UK participants memorized strings of large (global) letters made out of small…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Cultural Differences, Asians, Whites
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Scott, Ryan B.; Dienes, Zoltan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
This article examines the role of subjective familiarity in the implicit and explicit learning of artificial grammars. Experiment 1 found that objective measures of similarity (including fragment frequency and repetition structure) predicted ratings of familiarity, that familiarity ratings predicted grammaticality judgments, and that the extremity…
Descriptors: Grammar, Familiarity, Second Language Learning, Learning Processes