title: Unconscious structural knowledge of form-meaning connections.
abstract: We investigated the implicit learning of a linguistically relevant variable (animacy) in a natural language context (namely, the relation of forms of determiners to semantics). Trial by trial subjective measures indicated that exposure to a form-animacy regularity led to unconscious knowledge of that regularity. Under the same conditions, people did not learn about another form-meaning regularity when a linguistically arbitrary variable was used instead of animacy (size relative to a dog). Implicit learning is constrained to acquire unconscious knowledge about features with high prior probabilities of being relevant in that domain.
authors: School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
authors: Weiwen
authors: W
authors: Chen
authors: Xiuyan
authors: X
authors: Guo
authors: Jinghua
authors: J
authors: Tang
authors: Lei
authors: L
authors: Zhu
authors: Zhiliang
authors: Z
authors: Yang
authors: Zoltan
authors: Z
authors: Dienes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012660:Semantics; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology; D055815:Young Adult