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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Implicit learning"”.
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Implicit Learning of Semantic Preferences
… dissertation examines the phenomenon of semantic implicit learning, using semantic preferences of novel verbs as a test case. Implicit learning refers to the phenomenon of learning without intending to learn or awareness that one is learning at all. Semantic preference (or selectional preference – …
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Implicit learning of natural language syntax
… and the methodological framework provided by implicit learning research to the investigation of language acquisition. The results of six experiments are reported. In terms of design, all experiments consisted of (i) a training phase, during which subjects were trained on a miniature linguistic …
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Developing Production Skills through Implicit Learning
Language proficiency largely relies on implicit knowledge, which is unconscious and operates independently of voluntary control. Implicit learning is a process of incidental learning which results in the acquisition of implicit knowledge. We know that adult learners can acquire knowledge of novel …
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Associative implicit learning in adult dyslexic readers
This thesis examined associative implicit learning in dyslexic young adults. Dyslexic adults' associative implicit learning has been examined from three perspectives: what, when, and how. More specifically, it has been investigated if dyslexics have deficit in learning more complex knowledge, such …
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An Analysis of Functional Differences in Implicit Learning
This thesis analysed whether functional implicit learning differences existed in two areas that have produced promising, but equivocal, findings: individual differences in typical populations (e.g., Gebauer & Mackintosh, 2010) and group differences between Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) and …
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Cerebello-striatal connectivity and implicit learning in autism spectrum disorders
… striatum, and an impaired ability to anticipate implicit learning sequences; also, previous research indicates anatomic connections among these regions. Investigating distinctions in connectivity and impairments in the ability to anticipate implicit sequences linked to ASD would help clarify some …
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Implicit learning of phonotactics: an example of pure associative learning?
In order to study the processes of implicit learning in speech production, research participants were exposed to sequences of nonsense syllables which obeyed artificial phonotactic constraints. For example, /f/ showed up only at the beginning of syllables for some participants (whereas in English, …
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Understanding Semantic Implicit Learning through distributional linguistic patterns: A computational perspective
… provides a computational perspective on Semantic Implicit Learning (SIL). It puts forward the idea that SIL does not depend on semantic knowledge as classically conceived but upon semantic-like knowledge gained through distributional analysis of massive linguistic input. Using methods borrowed …
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Implicit learning of distributional patterns in linguistic and non-linguistic sequence production
Speakers implicitly learn phonotactic patterns while speaking syllables. Evidence for this learning appears in speakers’ changing speech error distributions when tasked with rapidly reading sequences of syllables that are generated according to various phonotactic rules (Dell, Reed, Adams, & Meyer, …
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Towards improving the usability of system-assigned PINs: can implicit learning techniques help?
Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) are widely used for automated teller machines (ATMs), computers, mobile devices, debit cards, and credit cards. People tend to choose easy-to-recall PINs that are related to important dates (e.g., birthdays or anniversaries), or keypad patterns. Unfortunately, …
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Implicit Learning in Science: Activating and Suppressing Scientific Intuitions to Enhance Conceptual Change
This dissertation examines the thesis that implicit learning plays a role in learning about scientific phenomena, and subsequently, in conceptual change. Decades of research in learning science demonstrate that a primary challenge of science education is overcoming prior, naïve knowledge of natural …
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Implicit Learning of Spatial Context in Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… 2006), may also show intact or even superior learning of visuospatial information. In a series of experiments, with adolescents and adults with ASD and a comparison group of Typically Developing (TD) individuals, learning of spatial context was investigated using a visual search task, known as …
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Implicit learning as a mechanism for syntactic acquisition and processing: Evidence from syntactic priming.
Learning to decode and communicate meaning from how words are combined is a challenge that children must meet in order to acquire the syntax of their language. The mechanisms of this process are hotly debated: do children have innate linguistic knowledge guiding their learning or are their innate …
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Implicit learning as a mechanism for syntactic acquisition and processing: Evidence from syntactic priming.
Learning to decode and communicate meaning from how words are combined is a challenge that children must meet in order to acquire the syntax of their language. The mechanisms of this process are hotly debated: do children have innate linguistic knowledge guiding their learning or are their innate …
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Motor skill acquisition in childhood: exploring the links between working memory, implicit learning and equipment modification
… that working memory plays in children’s motor learning. Working memory is responsible for the temporary storage and manipulation of information in the mind, and is the primary mechanism underpinning the conscious acquisition of motor knowledge. However, working memory is still developing …
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Making Smart Choices when Faced with Risk: The Role of Interoceptive Awareness and Life Stress on Implicit Learning.
<p>In complex situations where there is an unclear link between the available options and an advantageous outcome, visceral signals of arousal play a role in decision-making. Perception of the body’s various visceral signals is called interoceptive awareness (IA). Exposure to stressful events can …
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A Time-Series Analysis Of Implicit Learning And Tacit Knowledge And The Heuristic Value Of Methods Used To Substantiate The Cognitive Unconscious
… central topics of debate persist in the field of implicit learning (il): (1) whether learning and the subsequent knowledge acquired during artificial grammar learning (agl) tasks are best characterized as conscious or unconscious, (2) whether the acquired knowledge is bound more to physical …
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Intact Statistical Word Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorders
… of these deficits is poorly understood. Implicit learning appears potentially relevant to language development, particularly in speech segmentation, which relies on sensitivity to the transitional probabilities between speech sounds. This study aimed to investigate the relationship …
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Cognitive effort in contextual interference and implicit motor learning
… accounts of contextual interference and implicit motor learning from the perspective of cognitive effort. Three key outcomes have emerged. First, from a theoretical perspective, the thesis offers a previously unexplored account for the contextual interference effect – one that potentially …
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Bridging the gap between learning and memory
… thesis uses a fusion of recognition memory and implicit learning methods to investigate performance based on implicit learning. A series of experiments exposed participants to a study list composed of natural words that conform to a conjunctive rule-set involving the frequency and the …
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