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ArticlePsychology and aging2016

Aging and the statistical learning of grammatical form classes.

Jessica F Schwab, Kathryn D Schuler, Chelsea M Stillman, Elissa L Newport, James H Howard, Darlene V Howard

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Article in Psychology and aging, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  3. Cross-situational statistical learning in younger and older adults.Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · 2021
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6 authors.

Jessica F SchwabDepartment of Psychology, Georgetown University.
Kathryn D SchulerDepartment of Neurology, Georgetown University.
Chelsea M StillmanDepartment of Psychology, Georgetown University.
Elissa L NewportCenter for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Department of Neurology.
James H HowardCenter for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Department of Neurology.
Darlene V HowardCenter for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Department of Neurology.

Funding

Visual statistical learning in human infantsR01HD037082 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI ASLIN, RICHARD N., NEWPORT, ELISSA L · 1999 to 2022
$6.1M
Aging and the Cognitive and Neural Bases of Implicit Associative LearningR01AG036863 · NIA · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI HOWARD, DARLENE V., HOWARD, JAMES H. · 2010 to 2014
$2.0M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG036863NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD037082
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Language learners must place unfamiliar words into categories, often with few explicit indicators about when and how that word can be used grammatically. Reeder, Newport, and Aslin (2013) showed that college students can learn grammatical form classes from an artificial language by relying solely on distributional information (i.e., contextual cues in the input). Here, 2 experiments revealed that healthy older adults also show such statistical learning, though they are poorer than young at distinguishing grammatical from ungrammatical strings. This finding expands knowledge of which aspects of learning vary with aging, with potential implications for second language learning in late adulthood. (PsycINFO Database Record

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LinguisticsSemanticsVerbal LearningVocabularyAdultAgedAgingFemaleHumansMaleMemory, Short-TermYoung Adult

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PMCPMC4980253

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