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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 Dienes
Three 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 Science

ISSN

2054-5703

Publisher

Royal Society

Issue

10

Volume

5

Page range

180469 1-17

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  • Psychology Publications

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  • Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2018-10-08

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-10-29

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-10-08

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