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An artificial grammar learning experiment is reported which investigated whether three types of information are learned during this kind of task: information about the positions of single letters, about fragments of training strings, and about entire training strings. Results indicate that participants primarily learned information about string fragments and, to a lesser extent, information about positions of letters. Two connectionist models, an autoassociator and a simple recurrent network (SRN), were tested on their ability to account for these results. In the autoassociator simulations, similarity of test items to entire training items had a large effect, which was at variance with the experimental results. The results of the SRN simulations almost perfectly matched the experimental ones.
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Received: 22 September 1998 / Accepted: 22 February 1999
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Kinder, A. The knowledge acquired during artificial grammar learning: Testing the predictions of two connectionist models. Psychological Research Psychologische Forschung 63, 95–105 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004260000038
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004260000038