| Statistical learning of two artificial languages presented successively: how conscious? | |
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PMID: 21960981 Owner: NLM Status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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Statistical learning is assumed to occur automatically and implicitly, but little is known about the extent to which the representations acquired over training are available to conscious awareness. In this study, we focus on whether the knowledge acquired in a statistical learning situation is available to conscious control. Participants were first exposed to an artificial language presented auditorily. Immediately thereafter, they were exposed to a second artificial language. Both languages were composed of the same corpus of syllables and differed only in the transitional probabilities. We first determined that both languages were equally learnable (Experiment 1) and that participants could learn the two languages and differentiate between them (Experiment 2). Then, in Experiment 3, we used an adaptation of the Process-Dissociation Procedure (Jacoby, 1991) to explore whether participants could consciously manipulate the acquired knowledge. Results suggest that statistical information can be used to parse and differentiate between two different artificial languages, and that the resulting representations are available to conscious control. |
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Ana Franco; Axel Cleeremans; Arnaud Destrebecqz |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2011-09-21 |
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Title: Frontiers in psychology Volume: 2 ISSN: 1664-1078 ISO Abbreviation: Front Psychol Publication Date: 2011 |
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Created Date: 2011-09-30 Completed Date: 2011-11-10 Revised Date: 2012-05-07 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101550902 Medline TA: Front Psychol Country: Switzerland |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 229 Citation Subset: - |
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Consciousness, Cognition, and Computation Group, Université Libre de Bruxelles Bruxelles, Belgium. |
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