Are the products of statistical learning abstract or stimulus-specific?

Learners segment potential lexical units from syllable streams when statistically variable transitional probabilities between adjacent syllables are the only cues to word boundaries. Here we examine the nature of the representations that result from statistical learning by assessing learners’ abilit...

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Main Authors: Athena eVouloumanos, Patricia E Brosseau-Liard, Evan eBalaban, Alanna D Hager
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00070/full