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Rey, Arnaud; Perruchet, Pierre; Fagot, Joel – Cognition, 2012
Influential theories have claimed that the ability for recursion forms the computational core of human language faculty distinguishing our communication system from that of other animals (Hauser, Chomsky, & Fitch, 2002). In the present study, we consider an alternative view on recursion by studying the contribution of associative and working…
Descriptors: Evidence, Associative Learning, Short Term Memory, Theories
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Pacton, Sebastien; Perruchet, Pierre – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
In 5 experiments, results showed that when participants are faced with materials embedding relations between both adjacent and nonadjacent elements, they learn exclusively the type of relations they had to actively process in order to meet the task demands, irrespective of the spatial contiguity of the paired elements. These results are consonant…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Task Analysis, Attention