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Cross cultural differences in implicit learning of chunks versus symmetries
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posted on 2023-06-09, 15:22 authored by Xiaoli Ling, Li Zheng, Xiuyan Guo, Shouxin Li, Shiyu Song, Lining Sun, Zoltan DienesZoltan DienesThree experiments explore whether knowledge of grammars defining global vs. local regularities has an advantage in implicit acquisition and whether this advantage is affected by cultural differences. Participants were asked to listen to and memorize a number of strings of 10 syllables instantiating an inversion (i.e. a global pattern); after the training phase, they were required to judge whether new strings were well formed. In Experiment 1, Western people implicitly acquired the inversion rule defined over the Chinese tones in a similar way as Chinese participants when alternative structures (specifically, chunking and repetition structures) were controlled. In Experiment 2 and 3, we directly pitted knowledge of the inversion (global) against chunk (local) knowledge, and found that Chinese participants had a striking global advantage in implicit learning, which was greater than that of Western participants. Taken together, we show for the first time cross cultural differences in the type of regularities implicitly acquired.
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Royal Society Open ScienceISSN
2054-5703Publisher
Royal SocietyExternal DOI
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10Volume
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180469 1-17Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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- Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science Publications
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2018-10-08First Open Access (FOA) Date
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