Exploring the source of enhanced statistical learning in bilinguals
Finding how experience influences basic cognitive abilities is a central quest in cognitive science. As all languages exhibit statistical structure, but in language-specific ways, bilinguals must learn and joggle different sets of statistical regularities all the time. The protracted experience of l...
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| author | Pham, Thanh Tam |
| author2 | Gianluca Esposito |
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| description | Finding how experience influences basic cognitive abilities is a central quest in cognitive science. As all languages exhibit statistical structure, but in language-specific ways, bilinguals must learn and joggle different sets of statistical regularities all the time. The protracted experience of learning and using two languages in life has been claimed to improve executive functions. Here we asked whether individual patterns of bilingual experiences predict another core human ability, the implicit extraction of complex patterns of statistical regularities. In two experiments, we found that degree of bilingualism modulates auditory statistical learning (ASL) but not visual statistical learning (VSL). These results reveal important modality-specific effects of the relationship between bilingual experience and human learning abilities in adulthood. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/738742019-12-10T12:46:57Z Exploring the source of enhanced statistical learning in bilinguals Pham, Thanh Tam Gianluca Esposito Luca Onnis School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities Finding how experience influences basic cognitive abilities is a central quest in cognitive science. As all languages exhibit statistical structure, but in language-specific ways, bilinguals must learn and joggle different sets of statistical regularities all the time. The protracted experience of learning and using two languages in life has been claimed to improve executive functions. Here we asked whether individual patterns of bilingual experiences predict another core human ability, the implicit extraction of complex patterns of statistical regularities. In two experiments, we found that degree of bilingualism modulates auditory statistical learning (ASL) but not visual statistical learning (VSL). These results reveal important modality-specific effects of the relationship between bilingual experience and human learning abilities in adulthood. Bachelor of Arts 2018-04-17T08:58:47Z 2018-04-17T08:58:47Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73874 en Nanyang Technological University 37 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Humanities Pham, Thanh Tam Exploring the source of enhanced statistical learning in bilinguals |
| title | Exploring the source of enhanced statistical learning in bilinguals |
| title_full | Exploring the source of enhanced statistical learning in bilinguals |
| title_fullStr | Exploring the source of enhanced statistical learning in bilinguals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the source of enhanced statistical learning in bilinguals |
| title_short | Exploring the source of enhanced statistical learning in bilinguals |
| title_sort | exploring the source of enhanced statistical learning in bilinguals |
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