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Unconscious structural knowledge of form-meaning connections |
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| Authors: | Chen Weiwen Guo Xiuyan Tang Jinghua Zhu Lei Yang Zhiliang Dienes Zoltan |
| Affiliation: | aDepartment of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China;bSchool of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China;cSchool of Psychology, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China;dSchool of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK |
| 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. |
| Keywords: | Implicit learning Form&ndash meaning connections Structural knowledge Intuition |
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