Indirect effects of synthetic grammar learning in an identification task.
Axel Buchner · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition · 1994
Two experiments investigated the effects of incidental learning of an artificial grammar on an indirect measure. Ss memorized consonant strings and later identified these in a perceptual clarification procedure. The competitive chunking model by E. Servan-Schreiber and J. R. Anderson (1990) predicted faster identifications of grammatical as opposed to nongrammatical strings. Both experiments confirmed this prediction. Experiment 2 further investigated whether faster identification induces a feeling of familiarity, which should increase the probability of subjects responding «grammatical» to a string