Unconscious structural knowledge of tonal symmetry: Tang poetry redefines limits of implicit learning |
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Authors: | Jiang Shan Zhu Lei Guo Xiuyan Ma Wendy Yang Zhiliang Dienes Zoltan |
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Affiliation: | School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. |
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Abstract: | The study aims to help characterize the sort of structures about which people can acquire unconscious knowledge. It is already well established that people can implicitly learn n-grams (chunks) and also repetition patterns. We explore the acquisition of unconscious structural knowledge of symmetry. Chinese Tang poetry uses a specific sort of mirror symmetry, an inversion rule with respect to the tones of characters in successive lines of verse. We show, using artificial poetry to control both n-gram structure and repetition patterns, that people can implicitly learn to discriminate inversions from non-inversions, presenting a challenge to existing models of implicit learning. |
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