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Transfer in artificial grammar learning : a reevaluation
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Redington, Martin and Chater, Nick (1996) Transfer in artificial grammar learning : a reevaluation. Journal of experimental psychology : general, 125 (2). pp. 123-138. ISSN 0096-3445.
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Abstract
This article covers methodological and theoretical issues in artificial grammar learning. Arguments that such tasks are mediated by abstract knowledge (e.g., A. S. Reber, see record 1991-00330-001) are based primarily on evidence from transfer experiments, where the surface vocabulary is changed between learning and test items. Because of a number of methodological concerns, the small magnitudes of artificial grammar learning effects generally are difficult to interpret. Possible solutions are offered here. Furthermore, even reliable transfer effects imply neither that subjects have acquired abstract knowledge of the underlying grammar nor that they are performing a process of abstract analogy from memorized whole exemplars. Models that learn only surface fragments of the training stimuli and perform abstraction at test rather than during learning are wholly consistent with transfer phenomena.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of experimental psychology : general | ||||
Publisher: | American Psychological Association | ||||
ISSN: | 0096-3445 | ||||
Official Date: | 1996 | ||||
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Volume: | 125 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 123-138 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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