Prior familiarity with components enhances unconscious learning of relations

The influence of prior familiarity with components on the implicit learning of relations was examined using artificial grammar learning. Prior to training on grammar strings, participants were familiarised with either the novel symbols used to construct the strings or with irrelevant geometric shape...

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Published in:Consciousness and cognition 2010-03, Vol.19 (1), p.413-418
Main Authors: Scott, Ryan B., Dienes, Zoltan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Artificial grammar learning
Association Learning
Associative learning
Awareness
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Consciousness
Decision Making
Discrimination (Psychology)
Familiarity
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Implicit learning
Judgment
Learning
Learning. Memory
Linguistics
Male
Mental Recall
Models, Psychological
Perceptual learning
Photic Stimulation
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Recognition (Psychology)
Semantics
Unconscious (Psychology)
Unconscious knowledge
Vocabulary
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Summary:The influence of prior familiarity with components on the implicit learning of relations was examined using artificial grammar learning. Prior to training on grammar strings, participants were familiarised with either the novel symbols used to construct the strings or with irrelevant geometric shapes. Participants familiarised with the relevant symbols showed greater accuracy when judging the correctness of new grammar strings. Familiarity with elemental components did not increase conscious awareness of the basis for discriminations (structural knowledge) but increased accuracy even in its absence. The subjective familiarity of test strings predicted grammaticality judgments. However, prior exposure to relevant symbols did not increase overall test string familiarity or reliance on familiarity when making grammaticality judgments. Familiarity with the symbols increased the learning of relations between them (bigrams and trigrams) thus resulting in greater familiarity for grammatical versus ungrammatical strings. The results have important implications for models of implicit learning.
ISSN:1053-8100
1090-2376
DOI:10.1016/j.concog.2009.12.012