Iao, L.-S. ORCID: 0000-0002-3509-9712, Roeser, J.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4463-0923, Justice, L.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3394-2283 and Jones, G.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3867-9947,
2021.
Concurrent visual learning of adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies in adults and children.
Developmental Psychology.
ISSN 0012-1649
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Abstract
Concurrent learning of adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies has been shown in adults only. This study extended this line of research by examining dependency-specific learning for both adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies concurrently in both adults and children. Seventy adults aged 18 to 64 (40 females, 30 males; Experiment 1) and 64 children aged 10 to 11 years (40 girls, 24 boys; Experiment 2) were tested with a new serial reaction time (SRT) task in which they were trained for 6 - 8 minutes on materials comprising equally probable adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies. They were then asked to discriminate between trained and untrained dependencies in a familiarity task. Both adults and children showed implicit concurrent learning of both adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies. The two dependency types were learnt to the same extent. However, adults showed a rapid, sustainable and dependency-specific sensitivity throughout the SRT task while children only showed a dependency-specific sensitivity to violations of expectations after exposure. When the two groups were statistically compared, only adults showed a dependency-specific learning effect after exposure. These findings are in line with the age-related improvement model of dependency learning.
Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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Alternative Title: | Dependency learning in adults and children [running head] | ||||
Publication Title: | Developmental Psychology | ||||
Creators: | Iao, L.-S., Roeser, J., Justice, L. and Jones, G. | ||||
Publisher: | American Psychological Association | ||||
Date: | 11 February 2021 | ||||
ISSN: | 0012-1649 | ||||
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Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||
Date Added: | 16 Feb 2021 09:57 | ||||
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2021 09:57 | ||||
URI: | http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/42309 |
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