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TY - GEN ID - cogprints1891 UR - http://cogprints.org/1891/ A1 - Green, Christopher D. A1 - Munro, Ellen TI - Implicit Learning of Spatial Sequences Y1 - 1995/// N2 - Implicit learning for verbal strings generated by a finite state machine (FSM) has been demonstrated repeatedly. No one, however, has investigated whether such learning can take place when the information to be learned is spatial in nature. In this study, subjects learned sequences of FSM-generated spatial information displayed on a 3�3 grid. They were able to learn these sequences faster than subjects similarly set to learn random spatial sequences. As is typical in implicit learning studies, although the subjects in the experimental group were unable to articulate the rules governing the sequences, they were nevertheless able to distinguish new grammatical strings from random ones at a rate far above chance. AV - public KW - implicit learning KW - spatial cognition KW - grammar KW - syntax ER -