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ArticleRoyal Society open science2018

Cross-cultural differences in implicit learning of chunks versus symmetries.

Xiaoli Ling, Li Zheng, Xiuyan Guo, Shouxin Li, Shiyu Song, Lining Sun, Zoltan Dienes

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Xiaoli LingSchool of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-8110-6189
Li ZhengSchool of Psychology and Cognitive Science and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-6300-5739
Xiuyan GuoShanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0001-7846-1497
Shouxin LiSchool of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, People's Republic of China.
Shiyu SongDepartment of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
Lining SunSchool of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Zoltan DienesSchool of Psychology and Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7454-3161

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Abstract

Three experiments explore whether knowledge of grammars defining global versus 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 Experiments 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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chunkscross-cultural differencesglobal/localimplicit learningsymmetries

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